Thx Jeff. I could use a loop no doubt but I thought that will reduce the
speed and I was thinking there could be a vectorisation idea. I will try
your way. Cheers.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote:

> You have to wrap the write calls in some kind of loop. For your example,
> you could use a for loop. If you have multiple rows of one name you might
> look into the dlply function from the plyr package and use lapply to do the
> actual write calls.
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> Raghuraman Ramachandran <optionsraghu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >GuRus
> >
> >How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to
> >achieve
> >the following please?
> >
> >age=c(32,37,39)
> >names=c("john","peter","jake")
> >
> >I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as
> >john.csv,peter.csv
> >and jake.csv and each file have data from the age vector. That is
> >jon.csv
> >will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and jake.csv will contain
> >39.
> >
> >Thanks for the help.
> >
> >Raghu
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