Originally part of ReadStat, librdata is a small C library for reading and writing R data frames.
Features:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
If you're on Mac and see errors about AM_ICONV
when you run ./autogen.sh
, you'll need to install gettext.
Example usage:
#include "rdata.h" static int handle_table(const char *name, void *ctx) { printf("Read table: %s\n", name); return 0; /* non-zero to abort processing */ } // Called once for all columns with the following caveats: // * `name` is NULL for some columns (see handle_column_name below) // * `data` is NULL for text columns (see handle_text_value below) static int handle_column(const char *name, rdata_type_t type, void *data, long count, void *ctx) { /* Do something... */ return 0; } // Some column names appear in the file after the data static int handle_column_name(const char *name, int index, void *ctx) { if (debug) printf("Read column name: %s\n", name); /* Do something... */ return 0; } // Called once per row for a text column static int handle_text_value(const char *value, int index, void *ctx) { /* Do something... */ return 0; } // Called for factor variables, once for each level static int handle_value_label(const char *value, int index, void *ctx) { /* Do something... */ return 0; } rdata_parser_t *parser = rdata_parser_init(); rdata_set_table_handler(parser, &handle_table); rdata_set_column_handler(parser, &handle_column); rdata_set_text_value_handler(parser, &handle_text_value); rdata_set_value_label_handler(parser, &handle_value_label); rdata_parse(parser, "/path/to/something.rdata", NULL);
See rdata.h
for the full API.
Example usage:
#include "rdata.h" static ssize_t write_data(const void *bytes, size_t len, void *ctx) { int fd = *(int *)ctx; return write(fd, bytes, len); } int row_count = 3; int fd = open("/path/to/somewhere.rdata", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0644); rdata_writer_t *writer = rdata_writer_init(&write_data, RDATA_WORKSPACE); rdata_column_t *col1 = rdata_add_column(writer, "column1", RDATA_TYPE_REAL); rdata_column_t *col2 = rdata_add_column(writer, "column2", RDATA_TYPE_STRING); rdata_begin_file(writer, &fd); rdata_begin_table(writer, "my_table"); rdata_begin_column(writer, col1, row_count); rdata_append_real_value(writer, 0.0); rdata_append_real_value(writer, 100.0); rdata_append_real_value(writer, NAN); rdata_end_column(writer, col1); rdata_begin_column(writer, col2, row_count); rdata_append_string_value(writer, "hello"); rdata_append_string_value(writer, "goodbye"); rdata_append_string_value(writer, NULL); rdata_end_column(writer, col2); rdata_end_table(writer, row_count, "My data set"); rdata_end_file(writer); close(fd);
See rdata.h
for the full API.
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