guess_write_function: Guess write function from file extension

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Guess write function from file extension

Description

This function accepts a filename and tries to return a valid function for writing to it.

Usage

guess_write_function(file)

Arguments

file	filename to parse

Details

guess_write_function understands the following file extensions:

• rds with saveRDS

• csv, csv.gz, csv.xz with utils::write.csv

• tsv, tsv.gz, tsv.xz with a modified utils::write.csv where sep is set to "\t"

• parquet with arrow::write_parquet

• txt, txt.gz, txt.xz with writeLines

• json, json.gz, json.xz with jsonlite::write_json

Value

function for reading the file, if found

See Also

Other pb_rw: guess_read_function(), pb_read(), pb_write()

cboettig/piggyback documentation built on Feb. 29, 2024, 2:35 a.m.