[R] write out data in format

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The word 'format' is the clue: please consult the help page for the R 
function format().

write.table is designed to write a table to be processed by a program, not 
for human consumption.  The print() method for data frames calls format().

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Yuandan Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
> how to write out data frame in format? for examples, I wrote out a data
> using 'write.table(siredata, file='siredata.txt', row.names=F,
> quote=F)'.
>
> it produced data alike this:
>
>
> 2882 1 0 0 0 0 L1600481991910012 L1600011988880196
> 2883 0.79 0.21 0 0 21 L1622881993930001 L1600481991910012
> 2884 0.84 0.16 0 0 23 L1622881993930005 L1600481991910012
> 2885 0.9 0.1 0 0 23 L1622881993930027 L1600481991910012
> 2886 0.87 0.13 0 0 23 L1622881993930038 L1600481991910012
> 2887 0.9 0.1 0 0 27 L1622881993930111 L1600481991910012
> 2888 0.81 0.19 0 0 22 L1622881993930113 L1600481991910012
>
> In fact i want it formated as
> 2882 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00  0 L1600481991910012 L1600011988880196
> 2883 0.79 0.21 0.00 0.00 21 L1622881993930001 L1600481991910012
> 2884 0.84 0.16 0.00 0.00 23 L1622881993930005 L1600481991910012
> 2885 0.90 0.10 0.00 0.00 23 L1622881993930027 L1600481991910012
> 2886 0.87 0.13 0.00 0.00 23 L1622881993930038 L1600481991910012
> 2887 0.90 0.10 0.00 0.00 27 L1622881993930111 L1600481991910012
> 2888 0.81 0.19 0.00 0.00 22 L1622881993930113 L1600481991910012
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Yuandan
>
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