write.cdb: Writes a data frame to a text file
In cdb: Reading and Writing Constant DataBases

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References See Also Examples

This function writes a two column data frame to a text file using the cdb record format.

1	write.cdb(x, file, type=c("cdb","txt"))

`x`	An object that can be coerced as a data frame with two columns.
`file`	The name of the cdb file to write.
`type`	A character string describing the type of file. Value `cdb` does nothing; `txt` writes a text file using the cdb record format. See the Details section.

This function writes a data frame to a file using the text version of the cdb format. The data frame (or the object) must have only two columns: The first one contains the keys and the second column are the values.

The text version of the constant databse is a file with several lines with the form of +klen,vlen:key->value followed by a newline. klen and vlen are the number of bytes in key and in value, respectively. The end of data is indicated by an extra newline.

A text file with all the keys and values.

This text file can be transformed into a native cdb format using external programs. You may use an external program (for instance, TinyCDB) to create a cdb version from the text file (see references for details). In future versions, a native creation of cdb files will be developed.

Emilio Torres Manzanera

D. J. Bernstein The cdbmake and cdbdump programs http://cr.yp.to/cdb/cdbmake.html

Michael Tokarev (2012) TinyCDB - a Constant DataBase http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html

read.cdb

set.seed(123)
a <- data.frame(key=rnorm(10),value=rnorm(10))
write.cdb(a, "Base.txt", type="txt")

# Create a cdb base using an external program.
# For instance, using the TinyCDB program:
## Not run: system("cdb -c Base.cdb Base.txt")