[R] Mayday ! Needing urgent help about writing results to a file

[Alain Guillet]

Marc,

This is an exercise of the lesson STAT2430 at the UCL. Please, do your 
homework alone!!!!





Marc Feuerstein a écrit :
> Hey listmembers,
> I am desperately trying to write a data frame to a file. Not in CSV, but as they "appear" on the screen (nice, easy to read tables). I've read that the sink function is the way to go.
>
> I have tried the following code inside a function. 
>
> sink("ABC.txt")
> MyFrameA
> MyFrameB
> sink()
>
> It gives the result I need when I use it outside a function, but when I use it *inside* a function I wrote, it creates an empty file. I want to pull my hair out !
>
> What should I do so that, when the function ends, I have a text file called ABC.txt having MyFrameA and MyFrameB in the same file. 
>
> Thanks so much (in advance) to help me out on this one ! I'm sure some of you already encountered such a situation.
>
> Marc.
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