Nacho Uve <nachouve <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hello, > > I'm newbie in R and I have a problem exporting a table with many columns to > a dbf file.
In many sources, the maximum number of fields is said to be 128 or 255. I have seen a reference to 1024. It varies a great deal with the software being used. DBF is certainly not a good choice for writing objects with many columns. The page refered to on ?write.dbf: http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/dbf.html#DBF_STRUCT gives 128 fields; on googling for "DBF maximum number of fields", I see that: http://www.rhinocerus.net/forum/lang-clipper/193953-maximum-fields-per-record-dbf.html gets to 1023/4, but there are reports of very varying behaviour across different applications. Anything over 128 may be tempting fate. > I found an error when I open the result DBF file on other software and also > importing it on R again. > > Here a example snippet of the problem (on a GNU/Linux OS): > http://pastebin.com/0SMJqqwb > > Is it a bug? No, more an infelicity of a legacy format with unspecified extensions. Hope this clarifies, Roger > > Thank you, > Nacho V ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
