[R] Export objects

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:03 PM, diana buitrago wrote:

> <r-help at r-project.org>
> Hi, R users,
> How can I export an R object as a .txt file? As an example I have  
> the result
> from a regression and I need to save this object in a .txt file
>
> ctl <- c(4.17,5.58,5.18,6.11,4.50,4.61,5.17,4.53,5.33,5.14)
> trt <- c(4.81,4.17,4.41,3.59,5.87,3.83,6.03,4.89,4.32,4.69)
> group <- gl(2,10,20, labels=c("Ctl","Trt"))
> weight <- c(ctl, trt)
> res <- anova(lm.D9 <- lm(weight ~ group))

You don't say what you want as output. It depends what you mean.

1) Do you want what appears on the console? then ?sink or ? 
capture.output
2) Do you want to create a file with elements of an object? then ?cat
3) Do you want an ASCII file that R can interpret as an object? then ? 
dput

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT