writes an anonymized dataset to a file. This function should be used in the
graphical user interface sdcApp() only.
writeSafeFile(obj, format, randomizeRecords, fileOut, ...)a data.frame containing micro data
(character) specifies the output file format. Accepted values are:
"rdata": output will be saved in the R binary file-format
"sav": output will be saved as SPSS-file
"dta": ouput will be saved as STATA-file
"csv": output will be saved as comma seperated (text)-file
"sas": output will be saved as SAS-file (sas7bdat)
(logical) specifies, if the output records should be randomized. The following options are possible:
"no": default, no randomization takes place
"simple": records are randomly swapped
"byHH": if slot "hhId" is not NULL, the clusters defined by this
variable are randomized across the dataset. If slot "hhId" is NULL, the
records or the dataset are randomly changed.
"withinHH": if slot "hhId" is not NULL, the clusters defined by
this variable are randomized across the dataset and additionally, the order
of records within the clusters are also randomly changed. If slot "hhId"
is NULL, the records or the dataset are randomly changed.
(character) file to which output should be written
optional arguments used for utils::write.table() if
argument "format" equals "csv"
invisible NULL if the file was successfully written