yaml (version 2.1.13)

as.yaml: Convert an R object into a YAML string

Description

Convert an R object into a YAML string

Usage

as.yaml(x, line.sep = c("\n", "\r\n", "\r"), indent = 2, omap = FALSE, column.major = TRUE, unicode = TRUE, precision = getOption('digits'))

Arguments

x

the object to be converted

line.sep

the line separator character(s) to use

indent

the number of spaces to use for indenting

omap

determines whether or not to convert a list to a YAML omap; see Details

column.major

determines how to convert a data.frame; see Details

unicode

determines whether or not to allow unescaped unicode characters in output

precision

number of significant digits to use when formatting numeric values

Value

Returns a YAML string which can be loaded using yaml.load or copied into a file for external use.

Details

If you set the omap option to TRUE, as.yaml will create ordered maps (or omaps) instead of normal maps.

The column.major option determines how a data frame is converted. If TRUE, the data frame is converted into a map of sequences where the name of each column is a key. If FALSE, the data frame is converted into a sequence of maps, where each element in the sequence is a row. You'll probably almost always want to leave this as TRUE (which is the default), because using yaml.load on the resulting string returns an object which is much more easily converted into a data frame via as.data.frame.

References

YAML: http://yaml.org

YAML omap type: http://yaml.org/type/omap.html

See Also

yaml.load

Examples

  as.yaml(1:10)
  as.yaml(list(foo=1:10, bar=c("test1", "test2")))
  as.yaml(data.frame(a=1:10, b=letters[1:10], c=11:20))
  as.yaml(list(a=1:2, b=3:4), omap=TRUE)
  as.yaml("multi\nline\nstring")
  as.yaml(function(x) x + 1)
  as.yaml(list(foo=list(list(x = 1, y = 2), list(x = 3, y = 4))))

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