write.dta_vc: Write Stata Files, using pkg foreign

In williamlief/DataVersionControl: Automates version control tracking for data files

Description

This is a wrapper for 'foreign::write.dta()', use is identical to the original function.

Usage

write.dta_vc(dataframe, file, ..., stamp = Sys.Date(),
  version_control = "DATA_VC", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

dataframe	a data frame
file	character string giving filename.
...	other params for write.dta see write.dta
stamp	file suffix to disambiguate, default is Sys.date()
version_control	name of data version control file. Default is 'data_vc'. Should match name used in 'make_data_vc'.
verbose	logical, report update to version control file? Default is FALSE

Details

Internally it checks for the data version control file, and inserts or updates the record for the file that you are saving. The tracking is applied to the 'file'

See Also

write.dta

Examples

make_data_vc()
foreign::write.dta_vc(cars, "my_cars.dta", verbose = TRUE)

williamlief/DataVersionControl documentation built on Jan. 6, 2020, 8:20 a.m.