[R] Exporting to text files

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On May 18, 2018 9:47:25 AM PDT, Ed Siefker <ebs15242 using gmail.com> wrote:
>I have dose response data analyzed with the package 'drc'.
>'summary(mymodel)' prints my kinetic parameters.  I want
>that text in an ASCII text file.  I want to get exactly what I
>would get if I copied and pasted from the terminal window.
>
>I've read the documentation on data export to text files here:
>https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-data.html#Export-to-text-files
>
>write() does not work.
>
>> summary(mymodel)
>
>Model fitted: Michaelis-Menten (2 parms)
>
>Parameter estimates:
>
>              Estimate Std. Error t-value  p-value
>d:(Intercept)  213.435     67.094  3.1811 0.009801 **
>e:(Intercept)   94.493     59.579  1.5860 0.143820
>---
>Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
>
>Residual standard error:
>
> 22.03492 (10 degrees of freedom)
>> write(summary(mymodel), "kinetics.txt")
>Error in cat(x, file = file, sep = c(rep.int(sep, ncolumns - 1), "\n"),
> :
>  argument 1 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat'
>
>If I try to unlist(mymodel):
>> write(unlist(summary(mymodel)), "kinetics.txt")
>I get the following contents of "kinetics.txt":
>
>485.537711262143
>4501.62443636671
>3821.31920509004
>3821.31920509004
>3549.67055527084
>213.435401944579
>94.4931993582911
>67.0941460663053
>59.5791117361684
>3.18113299681396
>1.58601222147673
>0.00980057624097692
>0.143819823442402
>MM.2()
>continuous
>10
>4.63571040101587
>3.93514151059103
>3.93514151059103
>3.65540149913749
>Michaelis-Menten
>2
>22.0349202690217
>10
>
>
>How do I get the output of 'summary(mymodel)' verbatim? Why doesn't it
>work the way I think it does? What documentation should I read to
>understand what's going on here?
>
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