[R] Beginner help about output in R

[Michael Weylandt]

On Nov 8, 2012, at 9:14 PM, nicolapon <niqo at msn.com> wrote:

> Dear R experts,
> 
> I am a beginner with R and I have a question regarding the output of a
> function.
> 
> Basically, I created 2 functions, value1 and value2, that calculate two
> values, and I would like to print those two values to an output datafile. I
> tryed the following function:
> 
> function (x) {write.table(data.frame(value1(x),value2(x)),file=output.txt)}
> 

Type ?write.table and then add

append=TRUE

to your function call. 

Michael Weylandt

> My problem is that I would like to calculate those values for different
> values of x and to get one line in the output file per value.
> When I use this function for the second time, it erases the value of the
> first try, etc. How can I proceed so that I will add a new line to the
> output at every step instead of deleting the previous line?
> 
> Thank you very much for your answers!
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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