export_list {rio} | R Documentation |
Use export
to export a list of data frames to a vector of file names or a filename pattern.
export_list(x, file, ...)
x |
A list of data frames to be written to files. |
file |
A character vector string containing a single file name with a |
... |
Additional arguments passed to |
export
can export a list of data frames to a single multi-dataset file (e.g., an Rdata or Excel .xlsx file). Use export_list
to export such a list to multiple files.
The name(s) of the output file(s) as a character vector (invisibly).
library('datasets') export(list(mtcars1 = mtcars[1:10,], mtcars2 = mtcars[11:20,], mtcars3 = mtcars[21:32,]), xlsx_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".xlsx") ) # import all worksheets mylist <- import_list(xlsx_file) # re-export as separate named files csv_files1 <- sapply(1:3, function(x) tempfile(fileext = paste0("-", x, ".csv"))) export_list(mylist, file = csv_files1) # re-export as separate files using a name pattern export_list(mylist, file = csv_files2 <- tempfile(fileext = "%s.csv")) # cleanup unlink(xlsx_file) unlink(csv_files1) unlink(csv_files2)