write.fife: Write a dataset and load the meta-data

In dustinfife/fifer: A Biostatisticians Toolbox for Various Activities, Including Plotting, Data Cleanup, and Data Analysis

Description

Oftentimes the original data matrix is too large to practically read in everytime you want to do analysis. This often means creating a separate file for analysis. Unfortunately, if the original file is changed, the separate file doesn't reflect those changes. read.fife and write.fife both read and write meta-data, then display the original file name for the meta data.

Usage

write.fife(
  object,
  newfile,
  originalfile = NULL,
  file.type = ".csv",
  row.names = F,
  fullpath = T,
  ...
)

Arguments

object	An R object to be written as a .csv (or whatever) file.
newfile	The location of the subsetted dataset to be written.
originalfile	The location of the original file that was subsetted.
file.type	The file type to be read. Defaults to .csv.
row.names	Should row names be written? Defaults to FALSE.
fullpath	Should the full path be written to the meta-data? (e.g., "documents/research/datasets/medical_data_ap9_2014.csv"). Defaults to T.
...	Other arguments passed to write.csv.

Details

Technically, read.fife and write.fife don't actually read and write meta-data. Instead, they create (or read) a separate file that has the same name (though different extension) than the subsetted dataset. The extension of the meta data file is .file.

Author(s)

Dustin Fife

See Also

read.fife

dustinfife/fifer documentation built on Oct. 31, 2020, 3:36 p.m.