foreign (version 0.8-11)

write.foreign: Write Text Files and Code to Read Them

Description

This function exports data frames to other statistical packages by writing the data as free-format text and writing a separate file of instructions for the other package to read the data.

Usage

write.foreign(df, datafile, codefile, package = c("SPSS","Stata","SAS"), ...)

Arguments

df

A data frame

datafile

Name of file for data output

codefile

Name of file for code output

package

Name of package

...

Other arguments for the individual writeForeign functions

Value

• None

Details

The work for this function is done by foreign:::writeForeignStata, foreign:::writeForeignSAS and foreign:::writeForeignSPSS. To add support for another package, eg Systat, create a function writeForeignSystat with the same first three arguments as write.foreign. This will be called from write.foreign when package="Systat".

For package="SAS" there is an optional argument dataname="rdata" taking a string that will be the SAS data set name.

Examples

datafile<-tempfile()
codefile<-tempfile()
write.foreign(esoph,datafile,codefile,package="SPSS")
file.show(datafile)
file.show(codefile)
unlink(datafile)
unlink(codefile)