Save the covariate data to folder — saveCovariateData • FeatureExtraction

saveCovariateData saves an object of type covariateData to folder.

saveCovariateData(covariateData, file)

Arguments

covariateData: An object of type covariateData as generated using getDbCovariateData.
file: The name of the folder where the data will be written. The folder should not yet exist.

Details

The data will be written to a set of files in the folder specified by the user.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
covariateData <- FeatureExtraction:::createEmptyCovariateData(
  cohortId = 1,
  aggregated = FALSE,
  temporal = FALSE
)
# For this example we'll use a temporary file location:
fileName <- tempfile()
saveCovariateData(covariateData = covariateData, file = fileName)
# Cleaning up the file used in this example:
unlink(fileName)
}