[R] Write.table eol argument

[William Dunlap]

At least on Windows, you need to open the
file in "binary" mode (as opposed to "text"
mode) to prevent the usual OS-dependent way
of encoding end-of-line. E.g.,

  > z <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=state.name[1:3])
  > f <- file("tmp.csv", open="wb")
  > write.table(z, file=f, quote=FALSE, sep=";", eol="\n")
  > close(f) # do not forget to close it!
  > system("e:\\cygwin\\bin\\od -c --width=8 tmp.csv")
  0000000   x   ;   y  \n   1   ;   1   ;
  0000010   A   l   a   b   a   m   a  \n
  0000020   2   ;   2   ;   A   l   a   s
  0000030   k   a  \n   3   ;   3   ;   A
  0000040   r   i   z   o   n   a  \n
  0000047

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Moon
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 1:37 PM
> To: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Write.table eol argument
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> R 2.11.1
> Windows XP, 32-bit
> 
> Help says that default is eol='\n'.  To me, that represents 
> Linefeed (LF)
> 
> >From Help:
> eol     the character(s) to print at the end of each line 
> (row). For example, eol="\r\n" will produce Windows' line 
> endings on a Unix-alike OS, and eol="\r" will produce files 
> as expected by Mac OS Excel 2004.
> 
> I would like for write.table to end each line with LF only-no 
> carriage return (CR).
> 
> Default eol='\n'   generates  CRLF
> Explicit eol='\n'   generates  CRLF
> eol='\r'   generates CR
> eol='\r\n'  generates (predictably)  CRCRLF
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Jim
> 
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