In SAS, we can write macro for importing files. The macro can be of the form:
%MACRO IMPORT_Data(OUT = , FILE = );
data &OUT ;
infile "&INPUT_path.\&File"
delimiter = ',' MISSOVER DSD lrecl=32767
firstobs=2 ;
input
Var1 : $10.
Var2 : best12.
Var3 : Percent5.2
Var4
Var5
;
%mend;
Once we have this macro, we just need to change the filename, and run the macro. We don't need to write the import file syntax everytime we read the file. Can anybody help me to get the version in R? A reference is also greatly appreciated.
You are looking for a function. A user defined function to read a specified csv
file, apply some formatting to one or more of the columns, and return the result. Here is one example:
import_macro <- function(file, ...) {
data <- read.csv(file, ...)
# do whatever formatting you need to do. e.g.
data$v1 <- as.numeric(data$var1)
# var1 should be a column in your csv otherwise change it to something else
return(data)
}
Then you just run:
my_data <- import_macro('~/Desktop/file.csv', header = TRUE)
The following code helps me to read the data as we do in SAS. But I can't able to format my data here. So, putting the answer to get some useful comments.
imp<-strmacro(df,var,expr={df<-read.csv("C:\\Users\\RAW_DATA\\var.csv")})
mydata<-imp(mydata,"Import_data") /* Data set file name*/
View(mydata)
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