[R] writing 100 files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 5/22/2006 11:24 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to write as text files 1000 ish variation of the same data frame, 
> once I permute a row.
> 
> I would like to use the function write.table() to write the files, and 
> use a loop to do it:
> 
> for (i in 1:1000){
> 
> bb8[2,] = sample(bb8[2,])
> write.table(bb8, quote = F, sep = '\t', row.names = F, col.names = F, 
> file = 'whatever?????.txt')
> }
> so all the files are called whatever1: whatever1000
> 
> Any idea?

Use the paste() function to construct the name, e.g.

file = paste("whatever",i,".txt", sep="")

Duncan Murdoch