Bruce Como wrote:
Hi,
I am neither a statistician nor a user of R. I am a programmer trying to
provide my users (both statisticians and R users) data in a format that
works best for them.
It sounds like they would be the best ones to ask then.
What is a data frame? Is source data easier to work with in this format or
a csv file? Or yet another format?
A data.frame is a class of a certain type of R object. It is basically
a way to store rectangular data, rows for observations, columns for
variables.
Since R objects exist in memory, you can write out things like
data.frames to disk with the ?save function, so others can load them
with the ?load function.
I think your users will have to tell you what is easiest for them.
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