Dear Julien,
Try sink():

 matrixA <- matrix(0,5,4)
 matrixB <- matrix(1,7,13)
 matrixList <- list(matrixA,matrixB)
 names(matrixList) <- c("matrixA", "matrixB")

 sink("yourname.txt")
 matrixList
 sink()

See ?sink for more information.

HTH,

Jorge


On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM, julien cuisinier
<j_cuisinier@hotmail.com>wrote:

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> Hi list,
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> How to save a list content into a text file?
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> Please consider example below, I have two numeric matrices that I bundle
> into a list & give each list element a name
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> Example:
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> > matrixA <- matrix(0,5,4)
> > matrixB <- matrix(1,7,13)
> > matrixList <- list(matrixA,matrixB)
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> > names <- c("Matrix A","Matrix B")
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> > names <- names(matrixList)
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> How could I get the list in a txt as below:
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> "
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> Matrix A
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> (Matrix A element 1,1), (Matrix A element 1,2), ...
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> (Matrix A element 2,1), (Matrix A element 2,2), ...
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> ...
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> Matrix B
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> (Matrix B element 1,1), (Matrix B element 1,2), ...
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> (Matrix B element 2,1), (Matrix B element 2,2), ...
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> ...
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> Write or write.table or write.csv did not help as it complains the matrices
> are not of equal size
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> Any help/direction appreciated
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> many thanks
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> regards,
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> Julien Cuisinier
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