writeProductData: Write data product output
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writeProductData

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Write data product output

Description

This function will output a file that is used for dissemination of the data products produced for the research document.

Usage

writeProductData(
  filename,
  destdir = ".",
  dateCreated = presentTime(),
  contactName,
  contactEMail,
  description = NULL,
  otherMetadata = NULL,
  data,
  ndigits = 1
)

Arguments

`filename`	a character string indicating the name of the file.
`destdir`	Optional string indicating the directory in which to store downloaded files. If not supplied, "." is used, i.e. the data file is stored in the present working directory.
`dateCreated`	a POSIX format date indicating the time of creation, the default is set using the `presentTime`.
`contactName`	a character string indicating the person of contact
`contactEMail`	a character string indicating the contact name's e-mail address.
`description`	an optional character string providing some details of the data product.
`otherMetadata`	an optional list indicating additional metadata to provide in the header of the file. The list names should be provided in camelCase.
`data`	a data.frame of the data that is to be put into the file with appropriate column names, again, prefferably in camelCase
`ndigits`	the number of digits to output the data, default is 2