Thanks Duncan
From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 15:36 To: Sebastien Bihorel <sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com>; r-help@r-project.org <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] Creating file from raw connection On 29/05/2020 3:00 p.m., Sebastien Bihorel via R-help wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say I can extract the content of an Excel .xlsx file stored in a > database and store it as raw content in an R object. What would be the proper > way to "create" a .xlsx file and "transfer" the content of this obj into it? > I took the example of an Excel file, but my question would extend to any kind > of binary file. > > Thank you in advance for your input It depends on how the .xlsx was put in to the database and then extracted into R, but if it's just a copy of a file from disk, writeBin() will write it without changes. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
