readr (version 1.1.0)

format_delim: Convert a data frame to a delimited string

Description

These functions are equivalent to write_csv() etc., but instead of writing to disk, they return a string.

Usage

format_delim(x, delim, na = "NA", append = FALSE, col_names = !append)
format_csv(x, na = "NA", append = FALSE, col_names = !append)
format_tsv(x, na = "NA", append = FALSE, col_names = !append)

Arguments

x

A data frame to write to disk

delim

Delimiter used to separate values. Defaults to " ". Must be a single character.

na

String used for missing values. Defaults to NA. Missing values will never be quoted; strings with the same value as na will always be quoted.

append

If FALSE, will overwrite existing file. If TRUE, will append to existing file. In both cases, if file does not exist a new file is created.

col_names

Write columns names at the top of the file?

Value

A string.

Output

Factors are coerced to character. Doubles are formatted using the grisu3 algorithm. POSIXct's are formatted as ISO8601. All columns are encoded as UTF-8. write_excel_csv() also includes a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark which indicates to Excel the csv is UTF-8 encoded. Values are only quoted if needed: if they contain a comma, quote or newline.

References

Florian Loitsch, Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately with Integers, PLDI '10, http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/florian-loitsch/printf.pdf