Write a data frame to a text file — fwrite2 • bigreadr

Write a data frame to a text file

fwrite2(x, file = tempfile(), ..., quote = FALSE,
  nThread = getOption("bigreadr.nThread"))

Arguments

x: Data frame to write.
file: Path to the file that you want to write to. Defaults uses tempfile().
...: Other arguments to be passed to data.table::fwrite.
quote: Whether to quote strings (default is FALSE).
nThread: Number of threads to use. Default uses all threads minus one.

Value

Input parameter file, invisibly.

Examples

tmp <- fwrite2(iris)
iris2 <- fread2(tmp)
all.equal(iris2, iris)  ## fread doesn't use factors
#> [1] "Component \"Species\": Modes: character, numeric"                      
#> [2] "Component \"Species\": Attributes: < target is NULL, current is list >"
#> [3] "Component \"Species\": target is character, current is factor"