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datafile

Write an ASCII data file to the working directory.

Description

Invoking this function writes one or more nominated files to the working directory. In particular, it may be used to write the files 'fuel.txt' and 'fuel.csv' that are used in Chapter 1 of DAAGUR, and the files 'oneBadRow.txt' and 'scan-demo.txt' that are used in Chapter 14 of DAAGUR.

Usage

datafile(file = c("fuel", "travelbooks"), datastore =
                 DAAG::DAAGxdb, altstore = DAAG::zzDAAGxdb, showNames =
                 FALSE)

Arguments

`file`	character; with the defaults for `datastore` and `altstore` the options are "fuel", for fuel.txt; "fuel.csv", for fuel.csv; "oneBadRow", for oneBadRow.txt; "scan-demo", for scan-demo.txt; "molclock1", for molclock1.txt; "molclock2", for molclock2.txt; "travelbooks", for travelbooks.txt; "bestTimes", for bestTimes.txt; "bostonc", for bostonc.txt
`datastore`	Each element of this list is a character vector that holds the rows of a file.
`altstore`	An alternative list. The default alternative list is used for the two files that are more than a few lines.
`showNames`	if `TRUE`, returns the names of available datasets.

Value

An ASCII file is output to the current working directory. The names of all available datasets are returned invisibly.

Author(s)

J.H. Maindonald

Examples

datafile(file="", showNames=TRUE)

DAAG

Data Analysis and Graphics Data and Functions

v1.24

GPL-3

Authors

John H. Maindonald and W. John Braun

Initial release