daff (version 0.2.0)

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

Description

The diff information is stored in the Coopy highlighter diff format: http://dataprotocols.org/tabular-diff-format/

Usage

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

Arguments

diff

generated with diff_data

file

filename or connection

Value

diff object that can be used in patch_data

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.