# Read Rectangular Text Data

## Documentation for package ‘readr’ version 2.1.6

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

clipboard | Returns values from the clipboard
cols | Create column specification
cols_condense | Examine the column specifications for a data frame
cols_only | Create column specification
col_character | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
col_date | Parse date/times
col_datetime | Parse date/times
col_double | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
col_factor | Parse factors
col_guess | Parse using the "best" type
col_integer | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
col_logical | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
col_number | Parse numbers, flexibly
col_skip | Skip a column
col_time | Parse date/times
count_fields | Count the number of fields in each line of a file
date_names | Create or retrieve date names
date_names_lang | Create or retrieve date names
date_names_langs | Create or retrieve date names
default_locale | Create locales
edition_get | Retrieve the currently active edition
format_csv | Convert a data frame to a delimited string
format_csv2 | Convert a data frame to a delimited string
format_delim | Convert a data frame to a delimited string
format_tsv | Convert a data frame to a delimited string
fwf_cols | Read a fixed width file into a tibble
fwf_empty | Read a fixed width file into a tibble
fwf_positions | Read a fixed width file into a tibble
fwf_widths | Read a fixed width file into a tibble
guess_encoding | Guess encoding of file
guess_parser | Parse using the "best" type
locale | Create locales
local_edition | Temporarily change the active readr edition
melt_csv | Return melted data for each token in a delimited file (including csv & tsv)
melt_csv2 | Return melted data for each token in a delimited file (including csv & tsv)
melt_delim | Return melted data for each token in a delimited file (including csv & tsv)
melt_fwf | Return melted data for each token in a fixed width file
melt_table | Return melted data for each token in a whitespace-separated file
melt_table2 | Return melted data for each token in a whitespace-separated file
melt_tsv | Return melted data for each token in a delimited file (including csv & tsv)
parse_character | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
parse_date | Parse date/times
parse_datetime | Parse date/times
parse_double | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
parse_factor | Parse factors
parse_guess | Parse using the "best" type
parse_integer | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
parse_logical | Parse logicals, integers, and reals
parse_number | Parse numbers, flexibly
parse_time | Parse date/times
problems | Retrieve parsing problems
readr_example | Get path to readr example
readr_threads | Determine how many threads readr should use when processing
read_builtin | Read built-in object from package
read_csv | Read a delimited file (including CSV and TSV) into a tibble
read_csv2 | Read a delimited file (including CSV and TSV) into a tibble
read_delim | Read a delimited file (including CSV and TSV) into a tibble
read_file | Read/write a complete file
read_file_raw | Read/write a complete file
read_fwf | Read a fixed width file into a tibble
read_lines | Read/write lines to/from a file
read_lines_raw | Read/write lines to/from a file
read_log | Read common/combined log file into a tibble
read_rds | Read/write RDS files.
read_table | Read whitespace-separated columns into a tibble
read_tsv | Read a delimited file (including CSV and TSV) into a tibble
should_read_lazy | Determine whether to read a file lazily
should_show_types | Determine whether column types should be shown
show_progress | Determine whether progress bars should be shown
spec | Examine the column specifications for a data frame
spec_csv | Generate a column specification
spec_csv2 | Generate a column specification
spec_delim | Generate a column specification
spec_table | Generate a column specification
spec_tsv | Generate a column specification
stop_for_problems | Retrieve parsing problems
type_convert | Re-convert character columns in existing data frame
with_edition | Temporarily change the active readr edition
write_csv | Write a data frame to a delimited file
write_csv2 | Write a data frame to a delimited file
write_delim | Write a data frame to a delimited file
write_excel_csv | Write a data frame to a delimited file
write_excel_csv2 | Write a data frame to a delimited file
write_file | Read/write a complete file
write_lines | Read/write lines to/from a file
write_rds | Read/write RDS files.
write_tsv | Write a data frame to a delimited file