Reads in csv files as exported by Prospect — read

Takes a csv file exported from Prospect and reads it in to R along with the factor labels from the lookups.csv file produced by Prospect. When using this function you must first read the lookups.csv file into R.

Usage

read_prospect(file, dictionary = lookups, convert.date = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

file: The file to be read in
dictionary: The file in which the lookups reside, default is lookups
convert.date: Convert fields ending in _dt or _date to date format
...: arguments to be passed to utils::read.csv(). stringsAsFactors is set to FALSE within read_prospect(), re-specifying it in the call will throw an error.

Value

An object of class data.frame