Try using a connection: output <- file('boothd10.txt", 'w')
write.table(boothd(10), output, sep = '\t', col.names = FALSE) .... close(output) On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Laura Bonnett <l.j.bonn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using R version 2.9.2 in Windows. > > I would like to output the results of a function I have written to a .txt > file. I know that I can do this by using the code > write.table(boothd(10),"boothd10.txt",sep="\t",append=TRUE) etc. However, I > would like to bootstrap my function 'boothd' several times and get each > vector of results as a new line in my text file. Is there a way to do this? > > I usually just set the code up to do bootstrapping around the function (i.e. > I perform the replications within the function and output a matrix of > results). However in the case of 'boothd' I am dealing with rare events and > so sometimes I get an empty vector as output which makes mathematical > sense. Unfortunately this casues the bootstrapping code to crash. > > I'm hoping that writing the results out line by line will remove this > problem. I have tried rep(write.table(...),15) say but because of the > occasional null vector the table is not written. > > Thank you for any help you can give. > > By the way, > write.table(boothd(10),"boothd10.txt",sep="\t",append=TRUE) > write.table(boothd(10),"boothd10.txt",sep="\t",append=TRUE) > write.table(boothd(10),"boothd10.txt",sep="\t",append=TRUE) > write.table(boothd(10),"boothd10.txt",sep="\t",append=TRUE) > write.table(boothd(10),"boothd10.txt",sep="\t",append=TRUE) etc works but if > I want to look at 1000 replications this is very time consuming! > > Thanks, > Laura > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.