[Rd] write.csv

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Nov 24 17:27:04 CET 2005


On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Roger Peng wrote:

> If you don't want the row names, as 'write.csv()' writes out by default,
> try
>
> write.table(<object>, file = "myfile.csv", sep = ",", row.names = FALSE)

Or, better (since it sets other args to the appropriate values),

write.csv(<object>, file = "myfile.csv", row.names = FALSE)

That write.csv supports row.names = FALSE is explicitly mentioned on the 
help page.

>
> -roger
>
> Sven Schaltenbrand wrote:
>> hallo,
>>
>> i have a problem by writing a csv file
>> the first colum is filled with index numbers from 1 to n.
>> i have to unique two csv files once a week while one file is always the
>> same.
>> can anybody tell me, how to write the dataset into a csv file without the
>> first row of the indexnumbers.
>> x[,-1] does not wok as it eliminates the first "interesting" colum.
>> col.names is not accepted by r (do i habe to start a package first? which
>> one?)
>>
>> thx
>>
>> sven
>>
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