[R] Writing Vector to a File

[Duncan Murdoch]

Gundala Viswanath wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> I try not to trouble the list again after this question.
>
> I want to print this vector into a file
>
>   
>> myvec
>>     
>   [1] --Control --Control --Control --Control --Control HBA2      HBA1
>   [8] HBA1      --Control HBB       --Control HBB       HBA1      MBP
>  [15] --Control HBA1      HBA2      HBB       PTGDS     GAPDH     UBC
>  [22] --Control GAPDH     TPT1      HUWE1     PRM1      CKM       OPHN1
>  [29] GAPDH     ACTA1     PTGDS     S100A8    EEF1A1    APOD      CALM2
>  [36] TPT1      TUBA1B    MT2A      PTPRO     AL581768  TUBA1B    FTL
>  [43] --Control NM_001403 TUBA1B    TNNC2     TUBA1B    IGL@      --Control
>  [50] TUBA1C    IGKC      AA809056  IGKC      TTN       GH1       HBG2
>  [57] TUBA1C    MB        GH1       GH1       MT1X      UBB       GH1
>  [64] IGL@      MBP       VIM       GH1       ACTB      HBG2      TTR
>  [71] GH1       --Control MYL2      CFL1      EEF1A1    RPL37A    IGHG3
>  [78] PIP       --Control HBG1      KRT13     --Control PRM2      IGLJ3
>  [85] APOA1     ALDOA     NM_022646 IGHA1     GFAP      PRH1      ALDOA
>  [92] APOA1     SPARCL1   GNAS      --Control GPX3      APOC3     TNP1
>  [99] MT1P2     GNAS
>
> However using this command:
> write(myvec, "output.txt", sep="\n")
>
> I get this instead in my output.txt:
>
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 6241
> 6240
> 6240
> 1
> 6242
> 1
> 6242
> 6240
> ....
>
> What's wrong with my command above?
>   


It looks as though myvec is a factor or some other special object, not a 
character vector.  You could write as.character(myvec) to correct this.  
You should probably look at str(myvec) to find out what it really is.  
You may also want to use writeLines() instead of write().

Duncan Murdoch

> - Gundala Viswanath
> Jakarta - Indonesia
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