You will probably need to write a custom function, but it could use the built-in write.dcf() or formatDL() functions. E.g.,
> # options(width=50) > write.dcf(list(One=paste(1:50,collapse=" "), Two=paste(state.abb[1:5], collapse=", "))) One: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Two: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA > fx1 <- formatDL(c("One", "Two"), c(paste(1:50,collapse=" "), paste(state.abb[1:5], collapse=", "))) > cat(fx1, sep="\n") One 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Two AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA > fx2 <- formatDL(c("One", "Two"), c(paste(1:50,collapse=" "), paste(state.abb[1:5], collapse=", ")), style="list") > cat(fx2, sep="\n") One: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Two: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Skála, Zdenek (INCOMA GfK) > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:10 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] write list to ascii > > Dear all, > apologies for this (perhaps recurrent) question but I did not found a > question when > searching mailing lists. > > How to write a list of a simple kind, e.g.: > > abc <- list(one=(1:2), two=(1:5)) > > # to a file? I understand that write() & co. cannot work but when I try > > sink("aa.txt", append=T, split=T) > abc > sink() > > # the output is indeed "split by rows" in the textfile, each starting with > row numbers > (and I have rather long "vectors" resulting in many rows...): > > $one > [1] 1 2 > > $two > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 > > What I would need is a simple "set of vectors" starting with name in the > style of: > $one 1 2 > $two 1 2 3 4 5 > > Is it possible in R? > > Many thanks! > > Zdenek Skala > > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.