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crunch (version 1.3.2)

newDatasetByColumn: Upload a data.frame column-by-column to make a new dataset

Description

Use this version if you have lots of variables, under 1M rows, perhaps backed by ff or other memory-mapped files, and time to kill.

Usage

newDatasetByColumn(x, name = as.character(substitute(x)),
  useAlias = default.useAlias(), ...)

Arguments

x
a data.frame or other rectangular R object
name
character, the name to give the new Crunch dataset. Default is the name of the R object passed in x
useAlias
logical whether variable alias or name should be used as R variable names when the dataset is returned. Default is TRUE, meaning alias.
...
additional arguments passed to createDataset

Value

  • If successful, an object of class CrunchDataset.

See Also

newDataset newDatasetByCSV