[R] Werid things when write.table

[jim holtman]

If your matrix is being converted to characters, then the conversion
(and the use of '.' for decimal) is happening before the the
write.table call.  Do the cbinding without putting titles (characters)
in the first line and then once the table is build, use 'colnames' to
add the titles.  It sounds like in the call you are using
'col.names=TRUE' so are you also getting column names in addition to
the titles you have in the first line.  It is hard to tell without
reproducible data, or at least an 'str' of both of the objects you
reference.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Damian Abalo <wardamo.zero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I am having some issues with the order write.table.
>
> The fact is that I need to use "," as the decimal character and not
> "." as default, and when I use:
>
> write.table(Sales,file="Sales.xls",quote=FALSE, sep = "\t", dec = ",",
> row.names = FALSE, col.names = TRUE)
>
> It does it perfectly, but then, in a different part of the code:
>
> write.table(Error,file="Error report.xls",quote=FALSE, sep = "\t", dec
> = ",", row.names = FALSE, col.names = TRUE)
>
> It does not do it, it keeps the . as the decimal character. The main
> difference is that the second table is treated as a character matrix,
> because it has characters on the first line, which work as titles.
> This table is builded by cbinding several quantile orders, and I don't
> know how to make the program treat the table as numbers while
> mantaining the titles (Since it is not a table really). Any ideas?
> Thanks for your help
>
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Jim Holtman
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