[R] write.table problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Hector L. Ayala-del-Rio wrote:

> Dear R helpers,
>    I have been using the loadings function from the multiv library and I 

Looks like loadings() from the *mva* package to me, or more precisely
the result of the print method for loadings.

> 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??

?write.table says

     `write.table' prints its required argument `x' (after converting
     it to a data frame if it is not one already) to `file'.

There is no in-built way to convert a `loadings' object to a data frame,
but as it is a matrix (see ?princomp), unclass(loadings(foo)) will work.


>  > write.table(loadings(M2.princomp.corr))
                 ^unclass(                 ^)

Note that you do get just the loadings, not the full output from
print.loadings.


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