readr::write_*()
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Description

All functions documented here are part of the {readr} package, which is part of the {tidyverse}.

The {readr} package provides several useful functions for writing, i.e. saving, tibbles (data frames) to files.

These functions include:

Function What kinds of files it creates
write_csv() CSV (comma separated values) files
write_tsv() TSV (tab separated values) files
write_csv2() Files with a semi-colon ; delimiter. (This format is commonly used in certain European countries which use commas instead of periods in their decimals)
write_delim() Files with any delimiter symbol, which you specify with the argument delim

To use these function, you need to either first load the {readr} library, or always use the function with readr:: notation.

# Load the library
library(readr)
# Or, load the full tidyverse:
library(tidyverse)

# Or, use :: notation
readr::write_csv()
readr::write_tsv()
readr::write_csv2()
readr::write_delim()

Conceptual Usage

write_csv(tibble or data frame variable you want to save,
          "path/to/file/to/write/file.csv")

write_tsv(tibble or data frame variable you want to save,
          "path/to/file/to/write/file.tsv")

write_csv2(tibble or data frame variable you want to save,
          "path/to/file/to/write/file.csv2")

write_delim(tibble or data frame variable you want to save,
          "path/to/file/to/write/file.txt",
          delim = ",") # For example, comma delimiter

Examples


# Save the `msleep` tibble as a CSV to a file called "msleep.csv"
write_csv(msleep, "msleep.csv")


# Save the `msleep` tibble as a TSV to a file called "msleep.csv" which lives in the relative directory "datasets/"
write_tsv(msleep, "datasets/msleep.tsv")


# Save the `msleep` tibble as a delimited file "msleep_weird.txt" which lives in the relative directory "datasets/"
# and uses the weird approach of exclamation marks `!` to delimit (separate) columns
write_delim(msleep, "datasets/msleep_weird.txt", delim = "!")