write.xarf: Data Output to XARF

In AlekseyBuzmakov/XARF: The package provides a tool for reading and writing XARF files

Description

Function saves a data.frame like objct to XARF format. More details on format can be found in https://bitbucket.org/realKD/realkd/wiki/model/data/xarf.

Usage

write.xarf(x, dbID, file = "", dbDescription = NULL,
  attrDescription = NULL)

Arguments

x	the data.frame to be written
dbID	a unique identifier of the dataset
file	either a character string naming a file or a connection open for writing. "" indicates output to the console.
dbDescription	a list specifying the description of the dataset
attrDescription	a vector of descriptions for every attribute

Details

The function takes the dataset and writes it to file file. The names of the rows are written as the name attribute. The attributes are written in the order given in attrDescription. If an attribute is missing from attrDescription, it is written at the end of the dataset.

Examples

write.xarf(mtcars, file="",
  "mtcars",
  dbDescription=list(
    title="Motor Trend Car Road Tests",
    version="1.0.0",
    source="Basic R dataset 'mtcars'"),
  attrDescription=list(
    list(id="mpg",name="Miles/(US) gallon",type="real",description="The distance in miles a car can go with a single gallon of petrolium"),
    list(id="cyl",name="Number of cylinders",type="integer"),
    list(id="disp",name="Displacement (cu.in.)")
  ))

AlekseyBuzmakov/XARF documentation built on May 8, 2019, 1:42 p.m.