# CSV.read Error - provide a valid sink argument

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-read-error-provide-a-valid-sink-argument/50157>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** csv\
**Created:** [November 14, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-read-error-provide-a-valid-sink-argument/50157 "2020-11-14T19:27:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-read-error-provide-a-valid-sink-argument/50157/11 "2020-11-19T06:50:11Z")

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The `DataFrame` one should be `DataFrame(CSV.File(data_file))` and still works. `CSV.read` used to work with a dataframe output as default, but was deprecated so CSV.jl doesn’t have to depend on DataFrames.jl

It was then brought back as `CSV.read(filepath, sink)` as users were expecting a CSV.read function, and this structure means DataFrames only has to be loaded by the user if a DataFrame output is actually required.

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