It would be quicker, and easier, to use save/load to keep your temporary
output.  Therefore you would not have to be concerned with a structure that
would be compatible to write.table/read.table.

2010/4/26 Laetitia Schmid <laetitia@gmt.su.se>

> Hi,
> I've had a little problem for several weeks now. It is annoying and
> therefore I will ask for help:
> When I write a script with several iterations, I make it write out a
> text file to save the data during the run. For example I write:
> if (i %% 25) write.table(output,"temporary_output.txt")
> Later on, when I read in this output and want to calculate things, R
> complains that x is not numeric.
> I read it in with the following command:
> dat1<-read.table("temporary_output.txt",header=TRUE).
> It seems that R is saving my temporary output as a list.
> What is wrong here? And how can I do it better?
>
> This time I attached the temporary_output.txt:
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks.
> Laetitia
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