[R] write

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Pesl Thomas wrote:

> i want to write an output created by table() to a file to my disc
> 
> > tab
>    
> or    1  2  3  4  5  6
>   1  57 80 25 23 46 23
>   2 106 35 59  8 51 40
> 
> > write(tab,"h:/tab.txt")
> 
> when i do it that way, the text file is a sort of mess:
> 
> 57 106 80 35 25
> 59 23 8 46 51
> 23 40
> 
> i tried it with write.table but:
> >Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE) : 
> >        can't coerce table into a data.frame
> 
> so what is the problem?


You can use write.table(unclass(tab))

It should be possible to use write.table on 2-d tables.  I think the
problem is that tables can have more than two dimensions and so can't
necessarily be coerced to data frames.

You could also do 
  write(t(tab),ncol=NCOL(tab))
since write() transposes rows and columns.


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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