Export {car} | R Documentation |
Export a data frame to disk in one of many formats
Description
Uses the export
function in the rio package to export a file to disk. This function adds an argument for converting row.names to a column in the resulting file.
Usage
Export(x, file, format, ..., keep.row.names)
Arguments
x |
A data frame or matrix to be written to a file. |
file |
A character string naming a file. If the file name has an extension, such as |
format |
see |
... |
Additional arguments; see |
keep.row.names |
If set to |
Details
This is a convenience function in the car package for exporting (writing) a data frame to a file in a wide variety of formats including csv, Microsoft Excel. It optionally allows converting the row.names for the data frame to a column before writing. It then calls export
in the rio
package. That function in turn uses many other packages and functions for writing the function to a file.
Value
The name of the output file as a character string (invisibly).
Author(s)
Sanford Weisberg sandy@umn.edu
References
Chung-hong Chan, Geoffrey CH Chan, Thomas J. Leeper, and Jason Becker (2017). rio: A Swiss-army knife for data file I/O. R package version 0.5.0.
See Also
Examples
if(require("rio")) {
Export(Duncan, "Duncan.csv", keep.row.names="occupation")
Duncan2 <- Import("Duncan.csv") # Automatically restores row.names
identical(Duncan, Duncan2)
# cleanup
unlink("Duncan.csv")
}