Issues exporting R data frame as csv

jrkrideau · July 24, 2021, 8:12pm

How have you checked the number of rows in the .csv file?

We need reproducible example (reprex)

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A minimal reproducible example consists of the following items: A minimal dataset, necessary to reproduce the issue The minimal runnable code necessary to reproduce the issue, which can be run on the given dataset, and including the necessary information on the used packages. Let's quickly go over each one of these with examples: Minimal Dataset (Sample Data) You need to provide a data frame that is small enough to be (reasonably) pasted on a post, but big enough to reproduce your issue. Let's say, as an example, that you are working with the iris data frame head(iris) #> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species #> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.…

I just tried exporting a 5,000,000 data.frame to .csv with no problem but it was a very simple one. See the example below.

dat1 <-   data.frame(kk = sample(letters, 5000000, replace = TRUE),
                    zz = sample(1:10, 5000000, replace = TRUE) )


write.csv(dat1, "millions.csv", row.names = FALSE)