Read the results of tibble::glimpse back into a data frame

read_glimpse and read.glimpse read the data printed by tibble::glimpse() back into a data frame.

read_glimpse(
  file = clipr::read_clip(),
  class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame")
)

read.glimpse(file = clipr::read_clip(), class = "data.frame")

Arguments

file	Character. A path to a file, a connection, or literal data (either a single string or a vector of lines). If unspecified, reads from the clipboard.
class	A character vector of classes to assign to the results.

Value

A data frame of the class specified by the class parameter.

Details

read_glimpse and read.glimpse are roughly inverses of tibble::glimpse, except:

• they subset to rows where the input contains the complete data for the observation,

• list and matrix columns are unsupported and may lead to unexpected behavior, and

• since glimpse does not provide attributes or data frame classes,

  • attributes are dropped, and

  • class is assigned as supplied when called, defaulting to a tibble for read_glimpse and a data.frame for read.glimpse.

Examples

x <- capture.output(tibble::glimpse(iris))

read_glimpse(x)
#> # A tibble: 7 x 5
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> *        <dbl>       <dbl>        <dbl>       <dbl> <fct>  
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2 setosa 
#> 2          4.9         3            1.4         0.2 setosa 
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2 setosa 
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2 setosa 
#> 5          5           3.6          1.4         0.2 setosa 
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4 setosa 
#> 7          4.6         3.4          1.4         0.3 setosa 

read.glimpse(x)
#>   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
#> 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
#> 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
#> 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
#> 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa
#> 7          4.6         3.4          1.4         0.3  setosa