cat.path                Simple and robust way to create full-path file
                        names.
classify.ext            Classify file types readable by standard R I/O
                        functions.
column.salvage          Change column name in different form to desired
                        form.
conv.fixed.width        Convert a matrix or dataframe to fixed-width
                        for nice file output
file.ncol               Find the number of columns (lines) in a file.
file.nrow               Find the number of rows (lines) in a file.
find.file               Search for a directory to add to the path so
                        that a file exists.
find.id.col             Find which column in a dataframe contains a
                        specified set of values.
force.frame             returns a dataframe if 'unknown.data' can in
                        anyway relate to such:
force.vec               returns a vector if 'unknown.data' can in
                        anyway relate to such:
get.delim               Determine the delimiter for a text data file.
get.ext                 Get the file extension from a file-name.
is.file                 Test whether a file exists in a target
                        directory, or alternative list of directories.
n.readLines             Read 'n' lines (ignoring comments and header)
                        from a file.
parse.args              Function to collect arguments when running R
                        from the command line
reader                  Flexibly load from a text or binary file,
                        accepts multiple file formats.
reader-package          Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from
                        Files
rmv.ext                 Remove the file extension from a file-name.
shift.rownames          Shift the first column of a dataframe to
                        rownames() if appropriate.