Use get() instead of eval(). And, probably, some arguments are missing in call to paste(). Maybe, extension?
That is, for(i in test) write.table(get(i),file=paste(i,"txt",sep="."),row.names=FALSE,sep="\t") If you want file names matching exactly names of your matrices, and being without extension, you don't need to call paste() at all: for(i in test) write.table(get(i),file=i,row.names=FALSE,sep="\t") Luis Ridao Cruz wrote: > > R-help, > > I have a character vector whose elements are the names of matrixes. > Something like this: > >> test <- ls(pattern="Oki") > [1] "aaOki" "aOki" "bOki" "c1Oki" "c2Oki" "c3Oki" > "cOki" "dOki" "eOki" "fOki" "gprsOki" "hOki" "iOki" > > [14] "jOki" "kOki" "lOki" "mOki" ...................... > > An example: > >> aaOki > x y > [1,] -6.333333 61.41667 > [2,] -4.833333 61.41667 > [3,] -4.833333 61.25000 > [4,] -5.000000 61.25000 > [5,] -5.000000 61.16667 > [6,] -5.166667 61.16667 > [7,] -5.166667 61.00000 > [8,] -5.333333 61.00000 > [9,] -5.333333 60.91667 > [10,] -5.500000 60.91667 > [11,] -5.500000 60.83333 > [12,] -5.666667 60.83333 > [13,] -5.666667 60.75000 > [14,] -5.833333 60.75000 > [15,] -5.833333 60.66667 > [16,] -6.000000 60.66667 > [17,] -6.000000 60.50000 > [18,] -6.166667 60.50000 > [19,] -6.166667 61.00000 > [20,] -6.333333 61.00000 > [21,] -6.333333 61.41667 > > .. > .. > > .. > > What I want to do is to export these objects to text files > by doing: > > for(i in test) > write.table(eval(i),file=paste(i),row.names=FALSE,sep="\t") > > but it doesn't work. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/exporting-character-vector-to-text-files-tf4157676.html#a11829294 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
