[R] Fw: Re: Is there anything like a write.fwf() or possibility to print adata.frame without rownames?

[paul sorenson]

If you are desperate, save the file as tab delimited and then use vi or 
some stream editor to convert the tabs to spaces.  If you set the tab 
stop wide enough you should be able to guarantee uniform columns.

Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
>>>Petr Pikal wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>did you tried something like
>>>>
>>>>write.table( tab, "file.txt", sep="\t", row.names=F)
>>>>
>>>>which writes to tab separated file?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Petr thanks, but I do not want a tab delimited file. I need spaces
>>>between columns.
>>
>>write.table( tab, "file.txt", sep="", row.names=F)
>>Can it do what you want?
> 
> 
> Ronggui thanks,
> 
> but this does not work also. For example I get something like
> this bellow
> 
> "26" "1" 42 "DA" "DA" "lipa" "Monika"
> "26" "1" 42 "DA" "DA" "lipa" "Monika"
> "27" "1" 41 "DA" "DA" "smreka" "Monika"
> "27" "1" 41 "DA" "DA" "smreka" "Monika"
> 
> and you can see, that there is a problem, when all "values"
> in a column do not have the same length. I need to get
> 
> "26" "1" 42 "DA" "DA" "lipa"   "Monika"
> "26" "1" 42 "DA" "DA" "lipa"   "Monika"
> "27" "1" 41 "DA" "DA" "smreka" "Monika"
> "27" "1" 41 "DA" "DA" "smreka" "Monika"
> 
> i.e. columns should be properly aligned.
> 
> Lep pozdrav / With regards,
>     Gregor Gorjanc
> 
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