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

Petr PIKAL petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Mon May 7 09:22:51 CEST 2012 

Hi

> 
> Petr, your code does not create a native Excel file, and it is 
misleading 
> to name it with an xls extension.

Yes, you are right. It saves tab delimited file without row names which 
can be directly opened by Excel by double clicking. At least in my comps. 
I agree that it is not "propper" Excel file but it behaves like one so for 
me it is an Excel file.

Regards
Petr

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> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >Or you can use base function
> >
> >write.table(varxls, file="some output file.xls", sep = "\t", row.names
> >= 
> >F)
> >
> >Regards
> >Petr
> >
> >> 
> >> 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
> >> > 180        3771225 2814899 4727552 2308650 5233801
> >> > 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
> >> > 188        3649099 2633783 4664415 2096307 5201891
> >> > 189        3633833 2611383 4656284 2070130 5197536
> >> > 190        3618568 2589032 4648103 2044029 5193106
> >> > 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
> >> > 196        3526973 2455911 4598035 1888925 5165020
> >> > 197        3511707 2433880 4589534 1863313 5160101
> >> > 198        3496441 2411891 4580992 1837765 5155118
> >> > 199        3481176 2389943 4572408 1812280 5150071
> >> > 200        3465910 2368036 4563783 1786857 5144962
> >> > 201        3450644 2346169 4555119 1761496 5139792
> >> > 202        3435378 2324341 4546415 1736194 5134562
> >> > 203        3420112 2302552 4537673 1710951 5129273
> >> > 204        3404847 2280801 4528893 1685767 5123927
> >> > 205        3389581 2259087 4520075 1660639 5118523
> >> > 206        3374315 2237409 4511221 1635567 5113063
> >> > 207        3359049 2215767 4502332 1610550 5107549
> >> > 208        3343784 2194161 4493406 1585587 5101980
> >> > 209        3328518 2172589 4484446 1560678 5096358
> >> > 210        3313252 2151052 4475452 1535820 5090684
> >> > 211        3297986 2129548 4466424 1511015 5084958
> >> > 212        3282720 2108078 4457363 1486259 5079181
> >> > 213        3267455 2086640 4448270 1461554 5073355
> >> > 214        3252189 2065234 4439144 1436898 5067480
> >> > 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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> >> Exporting-R-Output-to-an-xls-file-need-help-tp4608912.html
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> >> >
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