[R] Print to File Formatting

[Daniel Nordlund]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Brigid Mooney
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:42 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Print to File Formatting
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am writing out to a file and have two quick questions that I can't
> seem to track down the correct answers for.  Luckily, I *think* they
> are both simple enough that someone might be able to point me in the
> right direction on them without too much trouble.
> 
> Both questions relate to the process below where CompleteFrame is a
> data frame containing what I want printed to a file.
> 
> filename <- "C:\\MyDocuments\\TestOut_050609.txt"
> 
> output <-file(filename, open="wt")
> write.csv(CompleteFrame, output, row.names = FALSE, col.names=FALSE)
> close(output)
> 
> Question #1:
> Every time I run this process, I get the warning:
> Warning message:
> In write.csv(CompleteFrame, output, row.names = FALSE, 
> col.names = FALSE) :
>   attempt to set 'col.names' ignored
> 
> And it still prints the column names as the first row in my file,
> which I do not want...
> 
> Question #2:
> This process puts quotes around all data of class = character.
> I can't have these quotes in my file - is it possible to get R to omit
> them even if my data frame contains character strings?
> 
> 
> Any help or hints on this are greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Brigid
> 
Brigid,

Look at ?write.table.  This should solve both problems.

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA