Write and read data in inferno — inferno.data • inferno

Utility functions to read and write CSV files in the format required by inferno

Usage

write.csvi(x, file, ...)

read.csvi(file, ...)

Arguments

x: the object to be written, preferably a matrix or data frame. If not, it is attempted to coerce x to a data frame. See write.table.
file: either a character string naming a file or a connection open for writing or reading. See write.table and read.table.
...: Other parameters to be passed to write.table or read.table.

Details

The functions of the inferno package accept CSV files formatted as follows:

Decimal values should be separated by a dot; no comma should be used to separate thousands etc. Example: 86342.75 .
Character and names should be quoted in single or double quotes. Example: "female".
Values should be separated by commas, not by tabs or semicolons.
Missing values should be simply empty, not denoted by "NA", "missing", "-", or similar.
Preferably there should not be factors; use character names instead.

The utility functions write.csvi() and read.csvi() are wrappers to write.table or read.table that sets appropriate default parameters