[R] write.csv to text string?

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Maybe using text connections. See ?textConnection.

tc <- textConnection("foo", "w")
s <- 'cola,colb\n1,2\n2,3\n'
cat(s, file = tc)
close(tc)
foo

read.csv(text = foo)


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 12-03-2015 17:15, Thomas Nyberg escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> I've found the following useful functionality:
>
>> s <- 'cola,colb\n1,2\n2,3\n'
>> read.csv(text=s)
>    cola colb
> 1    1    2
> 2    2    3
>
>
> But I haven't found a similar option in write.csv. I.e. I would like to
> "write" a dataframe to a string. What would be the easiest way to go
> about such a thing? Right now I can only think of using a file as an
> intermediary, but that seems a bit silly. Thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas Nyberg
>
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