[R] writing data to file

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2012-03-22 08:35, mail me wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I created a data frame
>
> df<- data.frame( person = c('John','Bob','Mary'), team =
> c('a','b','c'), stringsAsFactors = F);
>
> and obtained the expected  output
>
>   df
>    person   team
> 1   John      a
> 2    Bob      b
> 3   Mary      c
>
> now I want to save the whole content of df preserving its row and
> column order to a file in disk with the following command:
>
> write(df, file = "testfile",  append=FALSE, sep=" ");
>
> and I get the error message
>
> Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) :   argument
> 1 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat'
>
> Can you help to solve the problem? Thanks in advance.
>
> deb

You're using the wrong function; use write.table() instead.
You may want to set either or both of the arguments 'quote'
and 'row.names' to FALSE.

Peter Ehlers