[R] how to specify format of floats for the output file

[Henrik Bengtsson]

sprintf() returns a character string that you then can write to file using
cat() or some of its friends.

Henrik Bengtsson

Dept. of Mathematical Statistics @ Centre for Mathematical Sciences 
Lund Institute of Technology/Lund University, Sweden (+2h UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 ping-yin at uiowa.edu wrote:

> I'd like to write some numbers to an external file that looks "pretty" (e.g,
> decimal points aligned, same number of decimals). For example, if using
> sprintf(), "%5.1f" can be used to specify the format of the float to be printed
> on screen. How can I do the same if I want to write an output file instead? I
> have tried cat  and write.table, but none of them worked so far. 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ping
> 
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