Hello there, Using R 1.8.1 and WinXP...
I would like to write a disk file (ascii text) of an R data frame. When I type the name of the object in the console window, it is sensibly and nicely formatted. When I use write.table, it is *not*, because the separation character is just a space. I looked through the introductory material (my level) on the R website, but did not find a reference to this issue. At a minimum I suppose there is a way to insert a tab character in the sep=" " field, but I don't know how to do that. Alternatively, I could deal with a variable specifying fixed-field widths for each of the variables in the frame. Didn't find that either. Even so, you would loose the right-justification and the fact that R seems to take into account the width of the largest value in a column. Of course the really slick deal would be to have paginated output where the column titles repeat at the top of the page (having entered a parameter for the number of lines on your page after margins and so forth). A somewhat brutal solution would be to create all the text strings for making a LaTex document/table environment and write all that stuff out to the text file. Please don't tell me I have to do that! So is there a function for producing a file on disk with the same formatting as the screen? Thanks, =Randy= R. Zelick email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Biology voice: 503-725-3086 Portland State University fax: 503-725-3888 mailing: P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207 shipping: 1719 SW 10th Ave, Room 246 Portland, OR 97201 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
