data.frame.to.json: data.frame.to.json

In AnalysisPageServer: A framework for sharing interactive data and plots from R through the web

Description

Create a JSON representation of a data.frame

Usage

data.frame.to.json(df)

Arguments

df	data.frame to represent as a JSON

Details

We represent a data.frame as an hash of hashes. Factors are first coerced into characters.

The outer hash is keyed by the rownames of your data.frame The inner hash is keyed by the colnames of your data.frame

Value

JSON string

Author(s)

Brad Friedman

Examples

df <- data.frame(A=1:3, B=3:1, C=factor(c("foo","bar","foo")), row.names = c("one", "two", "three"))
## Should give the following
## {"one":{"A":1,"B":3,"C":"foo"},"two":{"A":2,"B":2,"C":"bar"},"three":{"A":3,"B":1,"C":"foo"}}
data.frame.to.json(df)

Example output

[1] "{\"one\":{\"A\":1,\"B\":3,\"C\":\"foo\"},\"two\":{\"A\":2,\"B\":2,\"C\":\"bar\"},\"three\":{\"A\":3,\"B\":1,\"C\":\"foo\"}}"

AnalysisPageServer documentation built on April 28, 2020, 6:32 p.m.