[R] Problems Exporting R Output to an xls file need help

[R. Michael Weylandt]

As it says, you need to supply a file name to be outputted to.

write.xls(...., file = "abc.xls")

Michael

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:31 AM, PaulJr <paulbernal07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello R users,
>
> I want to export to an xls or .csv some predictions I produced with the
> auto.arima and forecast functions.
>
> A detail of all my work is presented below. I loaded a package called
> dataframes2xls and tried to use the  function write.xls without any success.
>
> Can anybody help me figure this out? How could I get R to export the output
> to an xls file?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>> dryfit<-auto.arima(testing1$pcumsdry)
>> dryfit
> Series: testing1$pcumsdry
> ARIMA(2,1,1) with drift
>
> Coefficients:
>         ar1    ar2      ma1       drift
>      0.2684  0.109  -0.8906  -15265.776
> s.e.  0.1145  0.102   0.0798    8047.169
>
> sigma^2 estimated as 2.869e+11:  log likelihood=-2265.02
> AIC=4540.03   AICc=4540.43   BIC=4555.25
>> forecast(dryfit, h=60)
>    Point Forecast   Lo 80   Hi 80   Lo 95   Hi 95
> 157        4074831 3388438 4761224 3025083 5124579
> 158        4091730 3357988 4825473 2969569 5213892
> 159        4082508 3316633 4848383 2911204 5253812
> 160        4072372 3289497 4855247 2875069 5269675
> 161        4059142 3263395 4854890 2842151 5276133
> 162        4044982 3238520 4851444 2811605 5278359
> 163        4030235 3214025 4846446 2781949 5278522
> 164        4015229 3189787 4840672 2752824 5277635
> 165        4000090 3165706 4834474 2724010 5276170
> 166        3984886 3141748 4828025 2695417 5274355
> 167        3969651 3117892 4821410 2666998 5272304
> 168        3954400 3094129 4814672 2638728 5270072
> 169        3939142 3070452 4807832 2610595 5267689
> 170        3923880 3046856 4800903 2582588 5265171
> 171        3908616 3023340 4793891 2554704 5262527
> 172        3893351 2999901 4786800 2526937 5259764
> 173        3878085 2976536 4779635 2499284 5256886
> 174        3862820 2953243 4772397 2471742 5253898
> 175        3847554 2930020 4765088 2444307 5250802
> 176        3832288 2906866 4757711 2416976 5247600
> 177        3817023 2883778 4750267 2389748 5244297
> 178        3801757 2860755 4742758 2362619 5240895
> 179        3786491 2837796 4735186 2335587 5237395
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> 181        3755960 2792062 4719857 2281805 5230114
> 182        3740694 2769284 4712104 2255051 5226337
> 183        3725428 2746564 4704292 2228384 5222472
> 184        3710162 2723900 4696425 2201804 5218521
> 185        3694896 2701291 4688502 2175308 5214485
> 186        3679631 2678736 4680525 2148894 5210367
> 187        3664365 2656234 4672496 2122561 5206169
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> 191        3603302 2566730 4639874 2018002 5188602
> 192        3588036 2544475 4631597 1992047 5184025
> 193        3572770 2522266 4623274 1966163 5179377
> 194        3557504 2500104 4614905 1940349 5174659
> 195        3542239 2477986 4606492 1914604 5169873
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> 201        3450644 2346169 4555119 1761496 5139792
> 202        3435378 2324341 4546415 1736194 5134562
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> 204        3404847 2280801 4528893 1685767 5123927
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> 208        3343784 2194161 4493406 1585587 5101980
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> 213        3267455 2086640 4448270 1461554 5073355
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> 215        3236923 2043860 4429987 1412290 5061556
> 216        3221657 2022517 4420798 1387730 5055585
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> package 'dataframes2xls' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> varxls<-forecast(dryfit, h=60)
>> write.xls(varxls)
> Error: could not find function "write.xls"
>> library(dataframes2xls)
>> write.xls(varxls)
> [1] "Does 'python' exist, and is it in the path?"
> Error in paste("-o ", file, " ", sep = "") :
>  argument "file" is missing, with no default
>
>
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