Save a tibble of known locations to the preferred directory.

table_save(
  locationTbl = NULL,
  collectionName = NULL,
  backup = TRUE,
  outputType = "rda"
)

Arguments

locationTbl

Tibble of known locations.

collectionName

Character identifier for this table.

backup

Logical specifying whether to save a backup version of any existing tables sharing collectionName.

outputType

Output format, Default: 'rda'

Value

File path of saved file.

Details

Backup files are saved with "YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS"

Examples

library(MazamaLocationUtils) # Set the directory for saving location tables setLocationDataDir(tempdir()) # Load an example table and check the dimensions locationTbl <- get(data("wa_monitors_500")) dim(locationTbl)
#> [1] 68 13
# Save it as "table_save_example" table_save(locationTbl, "table_save_example") # Add a column and save again locationTbl %>% table_addColumn("my_column") %>% table_save(locationTbl, "table_save_example") # Check the locationDataDir list.files(getLocationDataDir(), pattern = "table_save_example")
#> [1] "table_save_example.rda"