[R] save rds as text

[Ista Zahn]

Perhaps

sink(file="mytable.txt")
print(k)
sink()

gives the desired result.

Best,
Ista

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:44 AM, alR <ac331 at le.ac.uk> wrote:
> I created a table like this:
>
> Analysis of Variance Table
>
>  Response: dati
>  Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
>  groups     2    114   57.00      76 4.134e-11 ***
>    Residuals 24     18    0.75
> ---
>    Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
>
> and saved it to a variable called k.
>
> When I tried to save the variable to txt file using
>
>  dput(k, file = "..\\Readouts\\anova_spike_number.txt")
>
> or
>
>  lapply(k, write, "..\\Readouts\\anova_spike_number.txt", append=TRUE)
>
>  it destroys the formatting.
>
> Then I saved to rds using
>
>  saveRDS(k, "..\\Readouts\\anova_spike_number.rds")
>
>
> and the format was preserved.
>
> I would like to convert the rds to txt preserving the table format. Or save
> it as excel file or pdf would also be fine.
> (If there is a way to avoid passing through rds file better, but  still OK
> using rds).
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Alberto
>
>
>
>
>
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