[R] Hmisc summary.formula.reverse export problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Well, write.table works on 'tables', that is matrix-like objects.
An object summary is not matrix-like.

You may be looking for

capture.output(print(taulu3), file="O:/taulu1.txt")


On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:

> Dear R-users,
>
> I'm trying to export object taulu3 from R to a text file (separated with
> semicolon). Object taulu3 is made with summary.formula in Hmisc package:
>
> taulu3 <- summary(sp ~ pdg_newtext, data=tr_ekahj, method="reverse",
> overall=TRUE)
> class(taulu3)
> [1] "summary.formula.reverse"
>
> When I try to export the object taulu3, I get the following error message:
>
> write.table(taulu3, "O:/taulu1.txt", sep=";")
>
> Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE, stringsAsFactors =
> stringsAsFactors) :
>        cannot coerce class "summary.formula.reverse" into a data.frame
>
> How can I get this object exported properly? I'm using Windows XP and I
> don't know latex yet.
>
> Regards,
> Lauri
>
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