[R] Writing .csv file

Don McKenzie dmck at u.washington.edu
Wed Sep 24 23:06:31 CEST 2014


I believe you need to specify row.names = FALSE

See the help for write.table()

On Sep 24, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use the following command to write data to a .csv file:
> 
>    write.csv(yxz,file="foo.csv")
> 
> And I get the following in the file, with one column appended to the file:
> 
> "","fsp","fsec","cincome",
> "1",0,3,2.25,...
> "2",0,1,2.75,...
> "3",1,1,0.625,...
> 
> Question: is there a way to avoid the first column? Thanks.
> 
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Don McKenzie
Research Ecologist
Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab
US Forest Service

Affiliate Professor 
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences 
University of Washington 
 
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