I assume this is (or was) a specification issue. I think write.dbf uses the
shapefile library (C not R library) so it applies to the use of shapefiles and
just happens to have been included in the foreign package because it has a
generic usefullness. (Is that a word?)
Since I very rarely care about the elegance of my solutions, just that they
work, I would try saving the file in another format that you can get open office
to read and let it do the conversion rather than trying to get R to do it.
I'm sure OpenOffice can deal with straightforward text files if that's a
last resort.
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Eduardo Leoni
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 7:13 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] exporting long character vectors to dbf
>
>
> Hi -
>
> I need to export data to openoffice base, where one of the elements is
> a long character vector (>255 characters.) write.dbf exports it as
> varchar, truncating the data. Any idea how to do this?
>
> thanks,
>
> -eduardo
>
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