Write a chronicler Data Frame object to a file — write_chronicle

Saves the contents of a chronicler object to a CSV or Excel file, including both the dataset and the log of operations. The data is stored in the value component of the chronicler object, and the log is included as metadata in the output.

Usage

write_chronicle_df(.c, path, row.names = FALSE, sep = ",", ...)

Arguments

.c: A chronicler object.
path: A single character string specifying the output file path. The file extension must be either .csv or .xlsx.
row.names: Logical, whether to include row names when writing to CSV. Defaults to FALSE.
sep: Character. Field separator for CSV output. Defaults to ",".
...: Additional arguments passed to write.table when writing CSV.

Value

Invisibly returns NULL. The function is called for its side effect of writing files.

Details

When writing a CSV file, the first few lines contain the log of operations performed on the data. Users should skip these lines when reading the data back in. When writing an Excel file, two sheets are created: value containing the dataset, and log containing the log of operations as a data frame for better readability.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Assume `c` is a chronicler object
write_chronicle_df(c, path = "output.csv")
write_chronicle_df(c, path = "output.xlsx")
} # }