[R] Hyper-elegant code to get a text file, transpose it, and write it

[Gabor Csardi]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:26:08AM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges wrote:
> > 
> > You probably want
> > 
> > write.table(t(read.table(file.in)), file = file.out, row.names = 
> > FALSE, col.names = FALSE)
> >
> Ok, almost there. I forgot to tell (because I didn't know)
> that the strings were separated by tabs (I just thought of
> splitting by _any_ space), and that the output would also
> be tab-separated. But there's still a minor feature:
> 
> write.table(t(read.table(file.in, sep ="\t")), file = file.out, 
>   row.names = FALSE, col.names = FALSE, sep = "\t") 
> 
> writes each output enclosed with quotation marks, like:
> 
> "1/2/2003"	"0.5638"	"0.6233"	"0.4559"	"0.8746"
> 
> I didn't find in the documentation of write.table a way to
> remove those quotes, because qmethod is either escape or double :-(

What about 'quote=FALSE'? Is it not good enough?

G.

> Alberto Monteiro
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