Use these functions to serialize an R object and write it
to a Box file. To write an object using RDS serialization,
use box_save_rds(); for other types of serialization,
use box_write() and provide a serialization function.
box_write(
object,
file_name,
dir_id = box_getwd(),
description = NULL,
write_fun = rio::export,
x,
filename,
...
)box_save_rds(
object,
dir_id = box_getwd(),
file_name = ".RDS",
description = NULL
)
Object to be written.
character, name of the new Box file.
numeric or character, folder ID at Box.
character, description caption for the file.
function, used to write (serialize) the content from R;
default function is rio::export().
Object to be written, deprecated: use object instead.
character, deprecated: use file_name instead.
Other arguments passed to write_fun.
Object with S3 class boxr_file_reference.
Using box_save_rds() is relatively straightforward, your
object will be written to Box as an RDS file.
If you want to specify the serialization, use box_write().
For example, you may wish to write a data.frame
to Box as a CSV file. Within box_write(), this is a
two-step process:
serialize the contents of the R object using write_fun
upload that serialization to a Box file
The default serialization-function is rio::export().
The rio::export() function currently supports only data.frame;
to serialize lists, you may wish to use jsonlite::toJSON().
Please note that box_write() is used to write R objects to Box files
using standard formats. To write R objects as .RData files,
you can use box_save().