[R] write.table very slow

[Cole Harris]

When writing tables with a large number of columns, write.table() seems to take way too much time - e.g. a table with ~80 rows and ~6000 columns takes ~30 min cpu on my 900 MHz pc.
I would appreciate any explainations or advice.

Thanks,
Cole
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