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Create Data

Source: R/create_data.R
create_data.Rd

Build an empty data.frame from a vector of colClasses.

Usage

create_data(colClasses)

Arguments

colClasses

a named vector of classes.

Value

a data.frame.

Details

The names of the vector will be used to name the columns and the values to cast the columns to the given classes.

If NA is given as input for colClasses, then read.table() will return an empty data.frame (0 obs. of 0 variables)

Examples

create_data(colClasses = c(id = "numeric", date = "Date", comment = "character"))
#> [1] id      date    comment
#> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)