[R] write.table

[Michaell Taylor]

I actually remember something about that in R 1.3, but I am using R 1.4
now :

R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.4.0  (2001-12-19)

(I just double checked).

BUT, I see I am one step out of date in the foreign library. I have 
foreign_0.4-6.tar.gz, but I see a  foreign_0.5-2.tar.gz on cran, so
perhaps that is the issue.


On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 07:18, Ott Toomet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see that you are using stata file as input.  It was a bug in foreign
> library in R 1.3.x which resulted wrong length for string variables.  The
> only function affected (which I am aware) is paste() and other functions,
> depending on paste() as, e.g., write.table().
> 
> You do not mention your version of R but I think it should be corrected in
> 1.4.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ott Toomet
> 
> 
> On 9 Apr 2002, Michaell Taylor wrote:
> 
>   |
>   |Hello,
>   |
>   |When using write.table I am getting two variables pasted together (not
>   |by choice).  Has anyone else had this happen?
>   |
>   |Specifically, I have the following:
>   |
>   |d _ read.dta(paste('/montecarlo/forecast/off/',F,'.dta',sep=''))
>   |write.table(d,file=paste('/montecarlo/forecast/off/csv/',F,'.csv',sep=''),
>   |    row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE,
>   |    quote=FALSE, sep=' , ')
>   |
>   |which gives:
>   |
>   |[mtaylor at statamatic Verify]$ head
>   |/montecarlo/forecast/off/csv/mcoffmetaa.csv
>   |
>   |   1,AA2002 ,0.004 ,  288000 ,0.004 ,   263000 ,  0.000 ,-0.015 , -0.014
>   |   1,AA2003 ,0.000 ,       0 ,0.007 ,   493000 , -0.006 ,-0.017 , -0.015
>   |   1,AA2004 ,0.000 ,       0 ,0.018 ,  1273000 , -0.016 ,-0.008 , -0.003
>   |   1,AA2005 ,0.000 ,       0 ,0.012 ,   841000 , -0.010 ,0.033 ,  0.037
>   |   1,AA2006 ,0.000 ,   30000 ,0.018 ,  1266000 , -0.015 ,0.054 ,  0.059
>   |   1,AA2007 ,0.007 ,  528000 ,0.026 ,  1903000 , -0.018 ,0.047 ,  0.052
>   |   1,AA2008 ,0.011 ,  900000 ,0.036 ,  2676000 , -0.022 ,0.041 ,  0.046
>   |   1,AA2009 ,0.011 ,  914000 ,0.025 ,  1898000 , -0.012 ,0.070 ,  0.073
>   |
>   |The problem is with the "AA2002", "AA2003" - as can be seen below - the
>   |R object has metcode and yr as seperate variables.
>   |
>   |> d[1:5,]
>   |  scenario metcode   yr  ginv   cons  gocc     abs   dvac   gmre   gmer
>   |1        1      AA 2002 0.004 288000 0.004  263000  0.000 -0.015 -0.014
>   |2        1      AA 2003 0.000      0 0.007  493000 -0.006 -0.017 -0.015
>   |3        1      AA 2004 0.000      0 0.018 1273000 -0.016 -0.008 -0.003
>   |4        1      AA 2005 0.000      0 0.012  841000 -0.010  0.033  0.037
>   |5        1      AA 2006 0.000  30000 0.018 1266000 -0.015  0.054  0.059
>   |
>   |
>   |I've seen similiar issues when reading dta files, but seems like the R
>   |object is good. i.e.
>   |
>   |lapply(d,mode)
>   |
>   |$scenario
>   |[1] "numeric"
>   |
>   |$metcode
>   |[1] "character"
>   |
>   |$yr
>   |[1] "numeric"
>   |
>   |<snip>
>   |
>   |
>   |I've tried ....
>   |d$metcode <- paste(d$metcode,' , ',sep='')
>   |
>   |as a cheap work around - no luck.
>   |
>   |Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>   |
>   |Michaell
>   |
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