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----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eduardo Leoni > Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 7:13 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
