[R] Puzzled by write.table function

[Wang, Hui]

Hi,
Sorry,the syntax in the email was wrong. 


The code is boring, it virtually processes some data and write the results
out using write.table function at the end. The output has <10,000 rows.

Here is part of the code:

....

write.table(sigGene, file="sigGene1.tab",append=FALSE, quote = FALSE, sep
="\t", eol = "\n", na = "NA", dec = ".", row.names =FALSE, col.names=FALSE);

write.table(cbind(gene,geneScored), file="sigGene_scored.tab",append=FALSE,
quote = FALSE, sep="\t", eol = "\n", na = "NA", dec = ".", row.names
=FALSE,col.names=FALSE);

sigGene is a matrix of 2 cols, gene, geneScored  are vectors generated by
early code.


I used the linux version 1.7.1.


Thanks

-h

-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de] 
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:29 PM
To: Wang, Hui
Cc: R-help
Subject: Re: [R] Puzzled by write.table function


Wang, Hui wrote:
> I am puzzled by the following:
> 
> I use two write.table function(write into files)  in my code  as 
> following (I use  source to call the code): ....
> write.table (x1, file ="x1.txt", quote = "FALSE", append=FALSE, sep="\t",
> eol="\n", "na=NA"...)
> ....(more statement)
> ..
> write.table (x2, file="x2.txt"...)
> 
> 
>  it turned out the second one is always empty.
> 
> I know there is nothing the code itself as I can get second 
> write.table statement work if I comment the first.
> 
> Does anybody know what happened here?

No, in particular not in this case, because you have given a 
non-reproducible example (moreover, it is syntactically wrong!).

Please also tell us your version of R and your OS.

Uwe Ligges