Get file header — get_header • echodata

Reading in this way is more robust and able to handle bgz format.

get_header(
  path,
  colnames_only = TRUE,
  nrows = 2L,
  nThread = 1L,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

path: Path to local file or remote URL.
colnames_only: Whether to return only column names (default: TRUE), or the first n rows as well.
nrows: The maximum number of rows to read. Unlike read.table, you do not need to set this to an estimate of the number of rows in the file for better speed because that is already automatically determined by fread almost instantly using the large sample of lines. nrows=0 returns the column names and typed empty columns determined by the large sample; useful for a dry run of a large file or to quickly check format consistency of a set of files before starting to read any of them.
nThread: The number of threads to use. Experiment to see what works best for your data on your hardware.
verbose: Print messages.

tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".tsv.gz")
data.table::fwrite(echodata::BST1, file = tmp, sep = "\t") 
header <- echodata::get_header(path=tmp)