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Convert data files (CSV, R, other statistics packages) into .omv-files for the statistical spreadsheet 'jamovi' (https://www.jamovi.org)

Source: R/convert_to_omv.R
convert_to_omv.Rd

Convert data files (CSV, R, other statistics packages) into .omv-files for the statistical spreadsheet 'jamovi' (https://www.jamovi.org)

Usage

convert_to_omv(
  fleInp = "",
  fleOut = "",
  varSrt = c(),
  usePkg = c("foreign", "haven"),
  selSet = "",
  ...
)

Arguments

fleInp

Name (including the path, if required) of the data file to be read ("FILENAME.ext"; default: ""); supports CSV and R-files natively, or other file types if "foreign" or "haven" are installed, see Details below

fleOut

Name (including the path, if required) of the data file to be written ("FILENAME.omv"; default: ""); if empty, the extension of fleInp is replaced with ".omv"

varSrt

Variable(s) that are used to sort the data frame (see Details; if empty, the row order of the input file is kept; default: c())

usePkg

Name of the package: "foreign" or "haven" that shall be used to read SPSS, Stata and SAS files; "foreign" is the default (it comes with base R), but "haven" is newer and more comprehensive

selSet

Name of the data set that is to be selected from the workspace (only applies when reading .RData-files)

...

Additional arguments passed on to methods; see Details below

Value

the function doesn't have a return value (it returns NULL)

Details

  • In difference to the remaining helper functions, convert_to_omv doesn't accept a data frame as input and it neither does return a data frame if fleOut is left empty: If you want to write a data frame, use write_omv. If you want to have a data frame returned use read_omv for jamovi-files or any of the functions listed in the bullet point below for any other file type.

  • varSrt can be either a character or a character vector (with one or more variables respectively). The sorting order for a particular variable can be inverted with preceding the variable name with "-". Please note that this doesn't make sense and hence throws a warning for certain variable types (e.g., factors).

  • The ellipsis-parameter (...) can be used to submit arguments / parameters to the functions that are used for reading and writing the data. By clicking on the respective function under “See also”, you can get a more detailed overview over which parameters each of those functions take. The functions are: read_omv and write_omv (for jamovi-files), read.table (for CSV / TSV files; using similar defaults as read.csv for CSV and read.delim for TSV which both are based upon read.table), load (for .RData-files), readRDS (for .rds-files), read_sav (needs the R-package haven) or read.spss (needs the R-package foreign) for SPSS-files, read_dta (haven) / read.dta (foreign) for Stata-files, read_sas (haven) for SAS-data-files, and read_xpt (haven) / read.xport (foreign) for SAS-transport-files. If you would like to use haven, you may need to install it using install.packages("haven", dep = TRUE).

See also

convert_to_omv internally uses the following functions for reading and writing data files in different formats: read_omv() and write_omv() for jamovi-files, utils::read.table() for CSV / TSV files, load() for reading .RData-files, readRDS() for .rds-files, haven::read_sav() or foreign::read.spss() for SPSS-files, haven::read_dta() or foreign::read.dta() for Stata-files, haven::read_sas() for SAS-data-files, and haven::read_xpt() or foreign::read.xport() for SAS-transport-files.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Example 1: Convert from RDS
# (use ToothGrowth as example, save it as RDS)
nmeInp <- tempfile(fileext = ".rds")
nmeOut <- tempfile(fileext = ".omv")
saveRDS(jmvReadWrite::ToothGrowth, nmeInp)
jmvReadWrite::convert_to_omv(fleInp = nmeInp, fleOut = nmeOut)
cat(list.files(dirname(nmeOut), basename(nmeOut)))
# -> "file[...].omv" ([...] contains a random combination of numbers / characters
cat(file.info(nmeOut)$size)
# -> 2448 (size may differ on different OSes)
cat(str(jmvReadWrite::read_omv(nmeOut, sveAtt = FALSE)))
# gives a overview of the dataframe (all columns and some attributes,
# sveAtt is intentionally set to FALSE to make the output not too overwhelming)
unlink(nmeInp)
unlink(nmeOut)

# Example 2: Convert from CSV
# (use ToothGrowth again as example, this time save it as CSV)
nmeInp <- tempfile(fileext = ".csv")
nmeOut <- tempfile(fileext = ".omv")
write.csv(jmvReadWrite::ToothGrowth, nmeInp)
jmvReadWrite::convert_to_omv(fleInp = nmeInp, fleOut = nmeOut)
cat(list.files(dirname(nmeOut), basename(nmeOut)))
cat(file.info(nmeOut)$size)
# -> 2104 (size may differ acc. to OS; the size is smaller than for the RDS-file
# because CSV can store fewer attributes, e.g., labels)
cat(str(jmvReadWrite::read_omv(nmeOut, sveAtt = FALSE)))
# gives a overview of the dataframe (all columns and some attributes)
unlink(nmeInp)
unlink(nmeOut)
} # }