miceadds (version 2.2-0)

write.fwf2: Reading and Writing Files in Fixed Width Format

Description

Reads and writes files in fixed width format. The functions are written for being more performant than utils::read.fwf.

Usage

write.fwf2(dat, format.full, format.round, file)
read.fwf2( file , format.full , variables = NULL)

Arguments

dat

Data frame (or numeric matrix)

format.full

Vector with fixed width variable lengths

format.round

Vector with digits after decimals

file

File name

variables

Optional vector with variable names

See Also

utils::read.fwf

Examples

## Not run: 	
# #############################################################################
# # EXAMPLE 1: Write and read a file in fixed width format
# #############################################################################
# 
# # set working directory
# path <- "P:/ARb/temp"
# setwd(path)
# 
# # define a data frame
# set.seed(9876)
# dat <- data.frame( "x" = seq( 1 , 21 , len=5) , "y" = stats::runif( 5 ) ,
#             "z" = stats::rnorm( 5 ) )
# 
# # save data frame in fixed width format
# format.full <- c(6 , 6 , 8 )
# format.round <- c( 0 , 2 , 3 )
# write.fwf2( dat , format.full=format.full, format.round=format.round ,
#                 file = "testdata" )
# 
# # read the data
# dat1 <- read.fwf2( file = "testdata.dat" , format.full = c(6,6,8) , 
#                variables = c("x","y","z") )
# # check differences between data frames
# dat - dat1
# ## End(Not run)