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Reading PSV (pipe-separated) file or string

I have just received a data file, whose extension is "*.psv". After doing a bit of research, I don't know how to open it R.

Solution

  • We could use read.table to read *.psv file.

    read.table("myfile.psv", sep = "|", header = FALSE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

    There might be many different representations of psv file, but when it comes to data mining, I think it might be more about "pipe separated" file. The data in the file is separated by "|"