miceadds (version 1.5-0)

save.data: RUtilities: Saving/Writing Data Files using miceadds

Description

This function is a wrapper function for saving or writing data frames or matrices.

Usage

save.data( data, filename, type="Rdata", path=getwd(), row.names=FALSE, na=NULL, 
      suffix = NULL , suffix_space = "__" , ...)

Arguments

data

Data frame or matrix to be saved

filename

Name of data file

type

The type of file in which the data frame or matrix should be loaded. This can be Rdata (for Rbinary format, using base::save, csv (using

path

Directory from which the dataset should be loaded

row.names

Optional logical indicating whether row names should be included in saved csv or csv2 files.

na

Missing value handling. The default is "" for type="csv" and type="csv2" and is "." for type="table".

suffix

Optional suffix in file name.

suffix_space

Optional place holder if a suffix is used.

...

Further arguments to be passed to save, write.csv2, write.csv, write.table or sjmisc::write_spss.

See Also

See load.Rdata and load.data for saving/writing Rdata frames.

Examples

#*** use data.ma01 as an example for writing data files using save.data
data(data.ma01)
dat <- data.ma01

# set a working directory
pf2 <- "P:/ARb/temp_miceadds"

# save data in Rdata format
save.data( dat , filename="ma01data"  , type="Rdata" , path=pf2)

# save data in table format
save.data( dat , filename="ma01data"  , type="table" , path=pf2 ,
            row.names=FALSE , na =".")

# save data in csv2 format
save.data( dat , filename="ma01data"  , type="csv2" , path=pf2 ,
            row.names=FALSE , na ="")

# save data in sav format 
save.data( dat , filename="ma02data"  , type="sav" ,  path=pf2 )