that works! Thanks a lot!!!!!!!

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:29 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick@gmail.com> wrote:

> file <- foo.data
>
> filename <- paste("plant", x, sep="")
> out <- paste("C:/", "plant/", filename, ".csv",sep="")
>
> write.csv(file, out)
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Tucson August <tucsonaugust@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > How to convert a character to a filename?
> > such as:
> >
> > x <- "height"  # "height" here is actually a name of a colume in a  data
> > frame
> > filename <- paste("plant,x")
> > write.csv (data, file="C:/plant/filename.csv)  # having trouble with this
> > statement, how to 'write' the filename here?
> >
> > All I want from above is to write 'data' to a file named plantheight.csv
> >
> > (the ultimate goal is to use a loop to transfer each column of a data
> frame
> > into a separated file named from that column
> > e.g. to create many files with different names but the names are all
> like:
> > plantheight.csv, plantweight.csv, and height, weight.., are column names
> of
> > a data frame)
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Tuc Aug.
> >
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