[R] Print/Save/Cat/Write list

[jim holtman]

try:

sink("y.data")
y
sink()

On 9/30/06, Ritwik Sinha <ritwik.sinha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to write a list to an ascii file.
> I tried the following
>
> y <- list(a = 1, b = c(TRUE,FALSE), c = "oops")
> save(y, file="y.data", ascii=TRUE)
> # Not satisfactory
>
> print does not have a file="" option
> cat cannot handle lists.
> write does not handle lists
> write.table converts it to a d.f
>
> Perhaps I could loop through the elements of a list and keep appending
> its elements to a file, but that will have a problem if any of the
> elements of the list is a list. I suppose there must be a simple
> function that does what I need. Sorry if I have missed anything
> obvious, my searches did not return anything useful.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Ritwik.
>
> Here is my version
>
> platform i686-redhat-linux-gnu
> arch     i686
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major    2
> minor    2.1
> year     2005
> month    12
> day      20
> svn rev  36812
> language R
>
> --
> Ritwik Sinha
> Graduate Student
> Epidemiology and Biostatistics
> Case Western Reserve University
> ritwik.sinha at gmail.com | +12163682366 | http://darwin.cwru.edu/~rsinha
>
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Jim Holtman
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