Write a data table to local file directory

Usage

write_dat(dat, project, path = NULL, file_type = "csv", ...)

Arguments

dat: Name of data frame in working environment to save to file.
project: String, project name.
path: String, path or connection to write to. If left empty, the file will be written to the dat folder in the project directory.
file_type: String, the type of file to write to. Options include "csv", "txt" (tab-separated text file), "xlsx" (excel), "rdata", "json", "stata", "spss", "sas", and "matlab".
...: Additional arguments passed to writing function. See "details" for the list of functions.

Details

Leave path = NULL to save dat to the data folder in the project directory See write.table for csv and tab-separated files, save for R data files, write.xlsx, read_json for json files, st_write for geojson files, read_dta for Stata files, read_spss for SPSS files, read_sas for SAS files, and writeMat for Matlab files, and st_write for shape files.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Save to the default data folder in project directory
write_dat(pollockMainDataTable, type = "csv", "pollock")

# Save to defined directory location
write_dat(pollockMainDataTable, path = "C://data/pollock_dataset.csv", 
          type = "csv", "pollock")
          
# Save shape file
write_dat(ST6, path = "C://data//ST6.shp", type = "shp", project = 'Pollock')
}