[R] formatted table to disk

[Jan Goebel]

What about sink()?
see help(sink)

greetings

jan

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Randy Zelick wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> Using R 1.8.1 and WinXP...
> 
> I would like to write a disk file (ascii text) of an R data frame. When I
> type the name of the object in the console window, it is sensibly and
> nicely formatted. When I use write.table, it is *not*, because the
> separation character is just a space.
> 
> I looked through the introductory material (my level) on the R website,
> but did not find a reference to this issue.
> 
> At a minimum I suppose there is a way to insert a tab character in the
> sep=" " field, but I don't know how to do that. Alternatively, I could
> deal with a variable specifying fixed-field widths for each of the
> variables in the frame. Didn't find that either.
> 
> Even so, you would loose the right-justification and the fact that R seems
> to take into account the width of the largest value in a column.
> 
> Of course the really slick deal would be to have paginated output where
> the column titles repeat at the top of the page (having entered a
> parameter for the number of lines on your page after margins and so
> forth).
> 
> A somewhat brutal solution would be to create all the text strings for
> making a LaTex document/table environment and write all that stuff out to
> the text file. Please don't tell me I have to do that!
> 
> So is there a function for producing a file on disk with the same
> formatting as the screen?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> =Randy=
> 
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