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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Nevil Amos <nevil.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using r to read and reformat data that is then saved to a text file > using sink(), the file has a number of initial lines of comments and summary > data followed by print of a data.frame with no row names. > for example > > a<-c(100:120) > b<-c(rnorm(100:120)) > c<-c(rnorm(200:220)) > mydata<-data.frame(rbind(a,b,c)) > sink("datafile.txt") > > cat("comments about my data \n") > cat("other calculations returned as separate text comments on a line \n") > print(mydata,row.names=F) > sink() > > > I need the content of the text file to keep each row of the data frame on a > single line thus (with intervening columns present of course) > > "datafile.txt" > > comments about my data > other calculations returned as separate text comments on a line > X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 > ..................................................................... > X19 X20 X21 > > > 100.0000000 101.000000 102.0000000 103.0000000 104.0000000 105.0000000 > ......................118.0000000 119.0000000 120.0000000 > -0.3380570 -1.400905 1.0396499 -0.5802181 -0.2340614 0.6044928 > ...................................-0.4854702 -0.3677461 -1.2033173 > -0.9002824 1.544242 -0.8668653 0.3066256 0.2490254 -1.6429223 > ..................................... 0.0861146 0.4276929 -0.3408604 > > How doI change setting for print() or use another function to keep each row > of the data frame as a single line ( of greater length up to approx 300 > characters) instead of wrapping the data frame into multiple lines of text? > > The problem : I end up with the data frame split into several sections one > under another thus > > "datafile.txt" > > comments about my data > other calculations returned as separate text comments on a line > X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6 > 100.0000000 101.000000 102.0000000 103.0000000 104.0000000 105.0000000 > -0.3380570 -1.400905 1.0396499 -0.5802181 -0.2340614 0.6044928 > -0.9002824 1.544242 -0.8668653 0.3066256 0.2490254 -1.6429223 > X7 X8 X9 X10 X11 X12 > 106.0000000 107.00000000 108.0000000 109.0000000 110.0000000 111.0000000 > 0.3152427 0.15093494 -0.3316172 -0.3603724 -2.0516402 -0.4556241 > -0.6502265 -0.08842649 -0.3775335 -0.4942572 -0.0976565 -0.7716651 > X13 X14 X15 X16 X17 X18 > 112.0000000 113.0000000 114.0000000 115.0000000 116.00000000 117.000000 > 0.8829135 0.8851043 -0.7687383 -0.9573476 -0.03041968 1.425754 > 0.2666777 0.6405255 0.2342905 -0.7705545 -1.18028004 1.303601 > X19 X20 X21 > 118.0000000 119.0000000 120.0000000 > -0.4854702 -0.3677461 -1.2033173 > 0.0861146 0.4276929 -0.3408604 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.