[R] How to export text into separate text files

[Lauri Nikkinen]

Thanks for the response. I have used the method Jim Holtman suggested
when exporting data.frames. In the current situation, I'm combining
text and data from data.frame, and I don't know how to separate the
results into the separate text files. I can output everything from the
loop into a single file using

output <- file("temp.txt", "w")
for (i in 1:ncol(r)) {
    cat("Some text,", "\n", file=output)
    cat("\n", file=output)
    cat("More text, More text, More text", file=output)
    cat("\n", file=output)
    cat(paste(names(r[!is.na(r[,i]), i]), ":",
	as.character(r[!is.na(r[,i]), i]), "\n"), file=output)
    cat("-----------------------------------", "\n", file=output)
}
close(output)

but then I'm stuck. I'm not sure how to edit the code from here.

Best regards,
Lauri

2008/10/28 John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca>:
>
> "jim holtman" <jholtman at gmail.com>  just answered a similar question for someone who wanted to input txt files.  His suggestion is below.  It should work for output as well
>
> Jim Holtman's suggestion.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> for (i in 2:4){
>    input <- read.delim(paste('vegetation_', i, '.txt', sep=''))
>    ,,,, process the file ....
> }
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> --- On Tue, 10/28/08, Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> From: Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi>
>> Subject: [R] How to export text into separate text files
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Received: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10:26 AM
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm producing text from my data.frame using cat
>> function. I would like
>> to use for loop to export each column in my data.frame into
>> separate
>> text files. Here is the example code
>>
>> r <- t(Indometh)
>> for (i in 1:ncol(r)) {
>>      cat("Some text,", "\n")
>>      cat("\n")
>>      cat("More text, More text, More text")
>>      cat("\n")
>>      cat(paste(names(r[!is.na(r[,i]), i]), ":",
>> as.character(r[!is.na(r[,i]), i]), "\n"))
>>      cat("-----------------------------------",
>> "\n")
>> }
>>
>> So, each of these columns (results between --- and ---)
>> should be
>> exported into separate text files e.g. file1.txt,
>> file2.txt, file3.txt
>> etc.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lauri
>>
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