[R] Writing a list help

[Greg Snow]

What are you planning to do with the file after it is created?

The best way depends on what you want to do.  The write.table function may not be the best choice, there are several functions for writing data to files including dump, write, cat, save, and probably others, some of these will write the entire list out in one step, some are more human readable than others (but the others may be more easily read back into R or into another program).

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Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Rajasekaramya
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:52 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Writing a list help
>
>
> hi there,
> I have a list called MyList.
>
> MyList[[1]]
> [1] "SRY"
>  [2] "RPS4Y1"
>  [3] "ZFY"
>  [4] "ZFX /// ZFY"
>  [5] "LOC728137"
>  [6] "LOC100101116 /// TTTY1"
>  [7] "AMELY"
>  [8] "TBL1Y"
>  [9] "PRKY"
> [[2]]
> .
> .
> .
> [[24]]
>
> I have list.I wanna write it to file.
>
> for(i in 1:24)
> {
> write.table(as.vector(as.matrix(MyLIST[[i]]
> file="geneset.txt",sep="\t",append=T)
> }
>
> I used a for loop to write my list.It worked but i have two concerns
> with
> it.
>
> First while writing in a txt file it writing in the names verticaly as
> it
> appears above but i want it to in row
> it should look like
> SRY" RPS4Y1" ZFY" ZFX /// ZFY" AMELY"  TBL1Y"   PRKY"
>
> second is i want the list name as my row name.
>
> I tried some thing like row.names=names(mylist[[i]]) but it didnit
> work.
>
> kindly let me know ur suggestions as how to go about it.
>
> Regards
> Ramya
>
>
>
>
>
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