[R] Error while trying to save summary() output as csv

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:

> Hi Kamil,
> You can use something like
> write.csv(t(as.matrix(object)), file="name.csv")
>
> -Ista
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Kamil Sijko  
> <Kamil.Sijko at swps.edu.pl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to save output of summary() procedure to a csv file. It's all
>> OK when it's applied to a 'factor' class variable, but when I try to
>> save a 'integer' class summary to csv it gives me :
>>
>>> summary(rnorm(100, 10)) -> object
>>> write.csv2(object, file='name.csv')
>> Error in do.call("expand.grid", c(dimnames(x), stringsAsFactors =
>> stringsAsFactors)) :
>>  second argument must be a list
>>
>> It's the same when I use write.csv instead of write.csv2
>>
>> summary() produces a very simple table:
>>
>> structure(c(7.803, 9.633, 10.15, 10.17, 10.75, 12.41), .Names =  
>> c("Min.",
>> "1st Qu.", "Median", "Mean", "3rd Qu.", "Max."), class = "table")
>>
>> I have no idea, what to do... So Group, please help me: what does  
>> this
>> error mean, and how to cope with it?

Not sure why you got that error but if you convert that table into a  
matrix the writing proceeds as expected:

  write.csv(as.matrix(structure(c(7.803, 9.633, 10.15, 10.17, 10.75,  
12.41), .Names = c("Min.", "1st Qu.", "Median", "Mean", "3rd Qu.",  
"Max."), class = "table") ), file="test.csv")


-- 
David.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Kamil
>>
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