Randy Zelick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
"\t" for TAB > 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! Someone did that for you. Check out the xtable package. > So is there a function for producing a file on disk with the same > formatting as the screen? sink() might well do it. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [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
