[R] Two last questions: about output

[Ted Byers]

Here is my little scriptlet:

optdata =
read.csv("K:\\MerchantData\\RiskModel\\AutomatedRiskModel\\soptions.dat",
header = FALSE, na.strings="")
attach(optdata)
library(MASS)
setwd("K:\\MerchantData\\RiskModel\\AutomatedRiskModel")
for (i in 1:length(V4) ) { 
   x = read.csv(as.character(V4[[i]]), header = FALSE, na.strings="");
   y = x[,1];
   fp = fitdistr(y,"exponential");
   print(c(V1[[i]],V2[[i]],V3[[i]],fp$estimate,fp$sd)) 
}


And here are the first few lines of output:

                                               rate         rate 
2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 1.800000e+01 6.869301e-02 6.462095e-03 
                                               rate         rate 
2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 1.900000e+01 5.958023e-02 4.491029e-03 
                                               rate         rate 
2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.000000e+01 8.631714e-02 7.428996e-03 
                                               rate         rate 
2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.200000e+01 1.261538e-01 1.137491e-02 
                                               rate         rate 
2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.300000e+01 1.339523e-01 1.332875e-02 
                                               rate         rate 
2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.400000e+01 8.916084e-02 1.248501e-02

There are only two things wrong, here.

1) the first three columns are integers, and are output variously as
integers, floating point numbers and, as shown here, in scientific notation.
2) this output isn't going to a file or to my DB.  This second issue isn't
much of a problem, as I think I know now how to deal with it.

This output data is, in one sense, perfectly organized, and there is a table
with a nearly identical structure (these five columns, plus one to hold the
date on which the analysis is performed (and of course, therefore, it has a
default value of the current timestamp  - handled in MySQL).  If I can get
the data written to a CSV file, with the first three columns provided as
integers, I can use the DB's bulk load utility to get the data into the DB,
and this may be faster than having this scriptlet connecting directly to the
DB to insert the data (unless the DBI has a function for a bulk load that
helps here).

Any idea how best to handle my formatting problem here?

Thanks

Ted
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