readwrite: Write or read a diff to or from a file

In edwindj/daff: Diff, Patch and Merge for Data.frames

Write or read a diff to or from a file

Description

The diff information is stored in the Coopy highlighter diff format: https://paulfitz.github.io/daff-doc/spec.html

Usage

write_diff(diff, file = "diff.csv")

read_diff(file)

Arguments

diff	generated with diff_data
file	filename or connection

Details

Note that type information of the target data.frame is lost when writing a patch to disk. Using a stored diff to patch a data.frame will use the column types of the source data.frame to determine the target column types. New introduced columns may become characters.

Names of the reference and comparison dataset are also lost when writing a data_diff object to disk.

Value

diff object that can be used in patch_data

edwindj/daff documentation built on Feb. 16, 2024, 3:12 p.m.