[R] write.table problem

[Hector L. Ayala-del-Rio]

Dear R helpers,
   I have been using the loadings function from the multiv library and I 
get the typical output (see below).  When I try to export these results 
to a file using a write.table() I get the following error message 
"Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE) : can't coerce 
loadings into a data.frame"  Any idea why write.table is doing that and 
any possible solutions??

thanks

hector

 > loadings(M2.princomp.corr)

Loadings:
         Comp.1 Comp.2 Comp.3 Comp.4 Comp.5 Comp.6 Comp.7 Comp.8 Comp.9 
Comp.10
f61      0.158               -0.138        -0.341
f63                                         0.234 -0.359
f67      0.178               -0.113        -0.329
f75      0.187               -0.199                0.143  0.135         
0.160
f78     -0.166 -0.193               -0.168                0.154
f81     -0.123 -0.102        -0.125 -0.284                0.297
f115     0.161                0.203 -0.199        -0.103               
-0.225
f117     0.166                0.198 -0.198                             
-0.241
f123     0.184                      -0.111 -0.157  0.209               
-0.231
f125     0.224               -0.169
f135     0.159                0.205 -0.200        -0.103               
-0.226
f138                   0.248         0.210                0.151  0.123 
-0.282
f161    -0.152 -0.242 -0.114
f163           -0.212 -0.183  0.133  0.196
f176                   0.248         0.210                0.151  0.123 
-0.282
f180                   0.162  0.191  0.225                0.206 -0.104  
0.324
f182            0.229 -0.229                                    -0.178
f185     0.226                0.125 -0.109
f190            0.227 -0.233                                    -0.201 
-0.103
f193    -0.158         0.214                             -0.327 -0.106
f196    -0.158         0.212                             -0.332 -0.108
f199    -0.156         0.212                             -0.335 -0.109
f203    -0.202 -0.168                0.113
f210.2          0.175 -0.175                      -0.107         0.415
f216                         -0.214  0.125  0.227  0.223               
-0.145
f225    -0.181  0.234
f227    -0.198  0.214
f230                                       -0.391               -0.126

  Comp.1 Comp.2 Comp.3 Comp.4 Comp.5 Comp.6 Comp.7 Comp.8 Comp.9
SS loadings     1.000  1.000  1.000  1.000  1.000  1.000  1.000  1.000  
1.000
Proportion Var  0.018  0.018  0.018  0.018  0.018  0.018  0.018  0.018  
0.018
Cumulative Var  0.018  0.036  0.054  0.071  0.089  0.107  0.125  0.143  
0.161
                Comp.10 Comp.11 Comp.12 Comp.13 Comp.14 Comp.15 Comp.16 
Comp.17
SS loadings      1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000  
  1.000
Proportion Var   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018  
  0.018
Cumulative Var   0.179   0.196   0.214   0.232   0.250   0.268   0.286  
  0.304
                Comp.18 Comp.19 Comp.20 Comp.21 Comp.22 Comp.23 Comp.24 
Comp.25
SS loadings      1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000  
  1.000
Proportion Var   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018  
  0.018
Cumulative Var   0.321   0.339   0.357   0.375   0.393   0.411   0.429  
  0.446
                Comp.26 Comp.27 Comp.28 Comp.29 Comp.30 Comp.31 Comp.32 
Comp.33
SS loadings      1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000  
  1.000
Proportion Var   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018  
  0.018
Cumulative Var   0.464   0.482   0.500   0.518   0.536   0.554   0.571  
  0.589
                Comp.34 Comp.35 Comp.36 Comp.37 Comp.38 Comp.39 Comp.40 
Comp.41
SS loadings      1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000  
  1.000
Proportion Var   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018  
  0.018
Cumulative Var   0.607   0.625   0.643   0.661   0.679   0.696   0.714  
  0.732
                Comp.42 Comp.43 Comp.44 Comp.45 Comp.46 Comp.47 Comp.48 
Comp.49
SS loadings      1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000   1.000  
  1.000
Proportion Var   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018   0.018  
  0.018
Cumulative Var   0.750   0.768   0.786   0.804   0.821   0.839   0.857  
  0.875

 > write.table(loadings(M2.princomp.corr))
Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE) :
         can't coerce loadings into a data.frame