[R] Handling of tables in R

Anne anne.piotet at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 11:22:08 CEST 2005


Save your table in a text file ( see ?write.table ) with the separator
set to "\t" ; you can then import it into excel

for the nb of digits use 
>options(digits=3)

see ?options 


Anne


2005/8/19, Fredrik Thuring <frt at codan.dk>:
> 
>        Hi!
> 
>        I have a few questions concerning reading of tables from R to
> other programs. My main question is if it's even possible to read a table
> created in R (with the functions data.frame     and save) to Excel (or
> maybe SAS) and if so how does one do this? If I just mark the table in R
> and copy-paste to Excel the whole table ends up in one single cell, (of
> course).        My goal is to copy the table to Excel (or SAS) in such a
> way that a single observation gets placed in a single cell.
> 
>        If this isn't possible, is there any way to reduce the number of
> digits in a table in R?
> 
>        I would be more than happy if there were any one who knows the
> answer to my questions!
> 
>        Thanks before hand,
>        Fredrik Thuring
>        Research department
>        Codan Insurance, Copenhagen
> 
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Anne




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