SciViews (version 0.8-8)

export: Export the content of an object in a foreign format

Description

export is a generic function to convert objects into various foreign formats and write it to a file or a connection.

Usage

export(x, type = "raw", file, append = FALSE, objname = deparse(substitute(x)), ...)

Arguments

x

The object to export

type

type gives the format in which the object should be converted. The list of recognized formats for this object is obtained with type = "typelist"

file

The path to the file where the converted object should be extracted

append

Do we append this object to this file?

objname

The name of the object (by default, it is the name of the variable that holds it)

...

Further argument passed to specific export methods

Value

• Return the result from specif exportation methods (invisibly if the file is written)

synopsis

export(x, type = "raw", file, append = FALSE, objname = deparse(substitute(x)), ...) export.default(x, type = "raw", file, append = FALSE, objname = deparse(substitute(x)), ...) export.data.frame(x, type = "raw", file = NULL, append = FALSE, objname = deparse(substitute(x)), saslib = "work", sasmember = "", writeit = TRUE, ...) export.matrix(x, type = "raw", file, append = FALSE, objname = deparse(substitute(x)), ...)

See Also

copy

Examples

data(iris)
        export(iris, type = "ascii", file = "iris.txt")
        # Inspect the file 'iris.txt', and then...
        unlink("iris.txt")