[R] Align columns in data frame write.table

[Joshua Wiley]

I do not know of any option in write.table() that would allow a
variable spacer, such as padding with spaces to make columns centered
or right aligned.  Everything is just separated somehow.  You could
look at ?format or ?sprintf which have padding/alignment options.
Once you had properly padded character data, you could just use
writeLines() to push it to a file.

Cheers,

Josh

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:39 PM, sharx <sxu12 at mtlakes.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to specify the alignment of individual columns in a
> data frame so that after using write.table the columns are aligned in the
> file?
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