csvdata: Create CsvData object from data.frame
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Description Usage Arguments Details

This function takes a data.frame, its metadata and a location. The function writes the data to the location and returns a CsvData object. The data.frame itself is not stored in this object.

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csvdata(resource, dat, location, name = resource, dset.meta = NULL,
  cols.meta = NULL, update.fct = function(csv) return(data.frame()),
  verbose = TRUE, clss = "CsvData")

`resource`	the name of the resource. Required.
`dat`	data.frame to convert to CsvData object. Required.
`location`	either a Location object, or a character pointing to a local directory. See details.
`name`	the physical name of the resource. Defaults to resource.
`dset.meta`	A list of metadata on the dataset.
`cols.meta`	A data.frame of metadata on the columns, rows are column names, columns are type, name, format
`update.fct`	function for updating the data. the update method and update interval is specified as meta data. Default is a function that returns an empty data.frame.
`verbose`	print diagnostic messages (default=TRUE)
`clss`	class to construct. Defaults to CsvData.

If metadata is missing, it is set with sensible default values. The default values for the dataset metadata are title=<resource name>, modified=<current timestamp>, encoding='UTF-8', type='csv2', all other entries missing. The default values for column metadata are name=<column name of the data.frame>, type=<class(column)>, format='

No updating takes place here.

datamart documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:40 a.m.