Re: [R] Write.fwf works from Mac, throws different number of row error in Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

You need to give us something reproducible or we won't likely be able to 
help you.  Put together a small example that illustrates the problem, 
and it will likely be fixed pretty quickly, or your error will be 
pointed out.  (You need to give us a way to construct outframe, we don't 
have it.)

Duncan Murdoch
mazibuko wrote:
Hello, 

I am having a problem with write.fwf in Windows. I wrote a code to ingest a
number of text files with weather data in them, process them, and then
output a text file with two parts: 1) a set of column names, 2) the
processed data table. 

I wrote and tested the program on my Mac, and it worked fine. However, on
the windows machine, where I intend the work to be done, when I run the
following line (last line of the script): 

  
write.fwf(outframe,file=outfile1,sep="",quote=FALSE,rownames=FALSE,colnames=FALSE,
    
+
width=c(4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8),append=TRUE,justify='right')

I get the following error: 

Error in data.frame(colname = colnamesMy, nlevels = 0, position = 0, width =
0,  : 
  arguments imply differing number of rows: 0, 1
In addition: Warning message:
In write.fwf(outframe, file = outfile1, sep = "", quote = FALSE,  :
  recycling 'width'

I can't see the reason for this. The data in outframe are all numeric, and
it worked on the Mac, and outframe has 7 rows on Windows and on the Mac, so
I am not sure what is going on here.

Here is my traceback() and sessionInfo() in case it helps: 

  
traceback()
    
3: stop("arguments imply differing number of rows: ", paste(unique(nrows), 
       collapse = ", "))
2: data.frame(colname = colnamesMy, nlevels = 0, position = 0, width = 0, 
       digits = 0, exp = 0, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
1: write.fwf(outframe, file = outfile1, sep = "", quote = FALSE, 
       rownames = FALSE, colnames = FALSE, width = c(4, 8, 8, 8, 
           8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8), append = TRUE, 
       justify = "right")
  
sessionInfo()
    
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
base     

other attached packages:
[1] doBy_4.0.5      survival_2.35-7 gdata_2.7.1     chron_2.3-34   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.12.1     grid_2.10.1        gtools_2.6.1       Hmisc_3.7-0       
[5] lattice_0.17-26    Matrix_0.999375-33
  

Any advice on this will be much appreciated. 

Thanks. 


  




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