[R] How to convert a character into a filename?

[stephen sefick]

file <- foo.data

filename <- paste("plant", x, sep="")
out <- paste("C:/", "plant/", filename, ".csv",sep="")

write.csv(file, out)

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Tucson August <tucsonaugust at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> How to convert a character to a filename?
> such as:
>
> x <- "height"  # "height" here is actually a name of a colume in a  data
> frame
> filename <- paste("plant,x")
> write.csv (data, file="C:/plant/filename.csv)  # having trouble with this
> statement, how to 'write' the filename here?
>
> All I want from above is to write 'data' to a file named plantheight.csv
>
> (the ultimate goal is to use a loop to transfer each column of a data frame
> into a separated file named from that column
> e.g. to create many files with different names but the names are all like:
> plantheight.csv, plantweight.csv, and height, weight.., are column names of
> a data frame)
>
> Thank you!
>
> Tuc Aug.
>
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