[R] Not getting all data to a text file via write.table

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

<rwatkins at cornerstonelp.com> writes:

> Hi all- Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> 	I have a 2275x1 table of residuals from an lm() regression.  I want to
> analyze this further in Excel.  I tried using:
> 
> 	df<-resid(object)
> 	write.table(df)
> 
> and this yields a nice looking output in R, but because of screen
> constraints, I seem to loose data "out-the-top" of the Console -- which
> doesn't bother me, as long as I can see it eventually.  But when i clicked
> on the RGui tool bar File|Save to file|, etc., only what I could see in the
> Console seemed to be saved to the text file.
> 
> 	Obviiously, I am a newbie -- How can I get the entire output into this
> textfile?

There's a file= argument to write.table. 

That's the right way to do it, but you can increase the amount saved
in the console too, on the GUI Preferences menu I think.

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