export: Exports Coe objects and shapes

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Exports Coe objects and shapes

Description

Writes a .txt or .xls or whatever readable from a single shape, a Coe, or a PCA object, along with individual names and $fac.

Usage

export(x, file, sep, dec)

Arguments

x	a Coe or PCA object
file	the filenames data.txt by default
sep	the field separator string to feed write.table). (default to tab) tab by default
dec	the string to feed write.table) (default ".") by default.

Value

an external file

Note

This is a simple wrapper around write.table.

Default parameters will write a .txt file, readable by foreign programs. With default parameters, numbers will use dots as decimal points, which is considered as a character chain in Excel in many countries (locale versions). This can be solved by using dec=',' as in the examples below.

If you are looking for your file, and did not specified file, getwd() will help.

I have to mention that everytime you use this function, and cowardly run from R to Excel and do 'statistics' there, an innocent and adorable kitten is probably murdered somewhere. Use R!

See Also

Other bridges functions: as_df(), bridges, complex

Examples

# Will write (and remove) files on your working directory!
## Not run: 
bf <- efourier(bot, 6)
# Export Coe (here Fourier coefficients)
export(bf) # data.txt which can be opened by every software including MS Excel

# If you come from a country that uses comma as decimal separator (not recommended, but...)
export(bf, dec=',')
export(bf, file='data.xls', dec=',')

# Export PCA scores
bf %>% PCA %>% export()

# for shapes (matrices)
# export(bot[1], file='bot1.txt')

 # remove these files from your machine
 file.remove("coefficients.txt", "data.xls", "scores.txt")

## End(Not run)

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