Rgretl (version 0.2.2)

save_gdt: saving data as gretl(-export) data files

Description

Saves data frames and/or (multiple) time-series objects as gretl data files, or in any the gretl-supported data files formats e.g. Stata, Octave, PcGive data files.

Usage

save_gdt(fname, ...)
# save_gdt(c("AirPassengers.gdt", "AirPassengers.dta"), AirPassengers, AirPassengers.gdt)
# save_gdt("AirPassengers.dat --jmulti", AirPassengers)
# save_gdt("AirPassengers.m --gnu-octave", AirPassengers)
# save_gdt("AirPassengers.dat --dat", AirPassengers)

Arguments

fname

character vector consisting of names of data files to be created; supported extensions are 'gdt', 'gdtb' (both gretl), 'txt', 'csv', 'asc', 'dta' (Stata), 'dat' (JMulTI, adding --jmulty is needed, see Usage above), 'm' (Octave, adding --gnu-octave is needed, see Usage above), 'dat' (PcGive, adding --dat is needed, see Usage above). Omitted extension is the same as '.gdt'. The default path is current R working directory. In '.gdt' and '.gdtb' files dayly, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly series will retain dates and frequencies.

…

R data objects, each can be data.frame, ts, or mts object, the number of arguments in … must coinside with the length of fname.

Value

void

Examples

# NOT RUN {
save_gdt("AirPassengers", AirPassengers) # saving as '.gdt'

path <- paste0(get_grwd(),"AirPassengers")
save_gdt(path, AirPassengers) # saving to gretl working directory
# }