datafile {DAAG}

Write an ASCII data file to the working directory.

Description

Invoking this function writes one or more nominated files to the working directory. In particular, it may be used to write the files 'fuel.txt' and 'fuel.csv' that are used in Chapter 1 of DAAGUR, and the files 'oneBadRow.txt' and 'scan-demo.txt' that are used in Chapter 14 of DAAGUR.

Usage

datafile(file = c("fuel", "travelbooks"), datastore =
                 DAAG::DAAGxdb, altstore = DAAG::zzDAAGxdb, showNames =
                 FALSE)

Arguments

file

character; with the defaults for datastore and altstore the options are "fuel", for fuel.txt; "fuel.csv", for fuel.csv; "oneBadRow", for oneBadRow.txt; "scan-demo", for scan-demo.txt; "molclock1", for molclock1.txt; "molclock2", for molclock2.txt; "travelbooks", for travelbooks.txt; "bestTimes", for bestTimes.txt; "bostonc", for bostonc.txt

datastore

Each element of this list is a character vector that holds the rows of a file.

altstore

An alternative list. The default alternative list is used for the two files that are more than a few lines.

showNames

if TRUE, returns the names of available datasets.

Value

An ASCII file is output to the current working directory. The names of all available datasets are returned invisibly.

Author(s)

J.H. Maindonald

Examples

datafile(file="", showNames=TRUE)