Saving, Writing and Loading BIFIEdata Objects

These functions save (save.BIFIEdata), write (write.BIFIEdata) or load (load.BIFIEdata) objects of class BIFIEdata.

The function load.BIFIEdata.files allows the creation of BIFIEdata objects by loading separate files of imputed datasets, replicate weights and a possible indicator dataset.

save.BIFIEdata(BIFIEdata, name.BIFIEdata, cdata=TRUE, varnames=NULL)

write.BIFIEdata( BIFIEdata, name.BIFIEdata, dir=getwd(), varnames=NULL,
    impdata.index=NULL, type="Rdata", ... )

load.BIFIEdata(filename, dir=getwd() )

load.BIFIEdata.files( files.imp, wgt, file.wgtrep, file.ind=NULL,
    type="Rdata",varnames=NULL, cdata=TRUE, dir=getwd(), ... )

Arguments

BIFIEdata

Object of class BIFIEdata

name.BIFIEdata

Name of BIFIEdata set to be saved

cdata

An optional logical indicating whether the dataset should be saved in a 'compact way'

varnames

Vector of variable names which should be saved. The default is to use all variables.

dir

Directory in which data files should be saved. The default is the working directory.

impdata.index

Vector of indices for selecting imputed datasets

type

Type of saved data. Options are Rdata (function base::save, csv (function utils::write.csv), csv2 (function utils::write.csv2), table (function utils::write.table), sav (function foreign::read.spss for reading sav files and function sjlabelled::write_spss for writing sav files).

...

Additional arguments to be passed to base::save, utils::write.csv, utils::write.csv2, utils::write.table, foreign::read.spss, sjlabelled::write_spss

filename

File name of BIFIEdata object

files.imp

Vector of file names of imputed datasets

wgt

Variable name of case weight

file.wgtrep

File name for dataset with replicate weights

file.ind

Optional. File name for dataset with response data indicators

Value

Saved R object and a summary in working directory or a loaded R object.

See also

For creating objects of class BIFIEdata see BIFIE.data.

base::save, base::load

Examples