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csv: Writes a CSV (comma separated values) file.

Description

Write a matrix or Time Indexed Series to a .csv file that can be imported into a spreadsheet.

Usage

csv(z, file = "", noDates = F, row.names = !is.tis(z), ...)

Arguments

z
matrix or tis object
file
either a character string naming a file or a connection. If "", a file name is constructed by deparsing z. The extension ".csv" is appended to the file name if it is not already there.
noDates
logical. If FALSE (the default) and z is a tis object, the first column of the output file will contain spreadsheet dates.
row.names
either a logical value indicating whether the row names of z are to be written along with z, or a character vector of row names to be written. If FALSE (the default) and z is a
...
other arguments passed on to write.table.

Value

  • csv returns whatever the call to write.table returned.

Details

csv is essentially a convenient way to call write.table. If file is not a connection, a file name with the ".csv" extension is constructed. Next, a column of spreadsheet dates is prepended to z if necessary, and then csv calls write.table(z, file = filename, sep = ",", row.names = !is.tis(z), ...)

See Also

write.table