[R] Write a blank line to CSV

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 17:44:06 CET 2010


Try this:

cat("\n", file = "tables.csv", append = TRUE)


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Krishna Tateneni <tateneni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings and happy new year!
>
> I'm attempting to write a series of tables to a CSV file, and would like to
> insert a blank line after each table. To do this, I use:
>> write.csv(NULL,"tables.csv",append=T)
> which appears to work, except that this warning is thrown:
>> Warning message:
>> In write.table(NULL, "tables.csv", append = T, col.names = NA,  :
>> appending column names to file
> I tried col.names=F in the write.csv call, but the argument is ignored,
> presumably because NULL does not have col.names.
>
> Is there a better way to insert the blank lines?  Many thanks for
> enlightening me!
>
> --Krishna



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