[R] write.table linebreaks

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What do you think the 'eol' argument to write.table is for?

I don't have a Mac to hand, but eol='\r' does this on Linux and Windows.

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Birgit Lemcke wrote:

> Hello R users,
>
> I am a newby using R  2.5.0 on a Apple Power Book G4 with Mac OS X
> 10.4.10.
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> when I use the write.table function, I always get the output in Unix
> linebreaks that I have to change to McIntosh linebreaks to be able to
> Import the data in Excel 2004 for Mac.
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> Is there a possibility to do this automatically in R and respectively
> in the write.table function?
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> Birgit
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