[R] Writing .csv file

[John McKown]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:00 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.
>

I'm fairly sure you need:

write.csv(yxz,file="foo.csv",row.names=FALSE);

If you don't want the header row at the top, you might want to try:

write.table(yxz,file="foo.csv",row.names=FALSE,col.names=FALSE,sep=',',qmethod="double");


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