R help - Apr 2009 - combine words and dataframe

Hi R,

 

I am trying to get an output like this

 

Hi

Hello

1           a           b

2           a           b

3           a           b

4           a           b

5           a           b

 

And write it as a text file

 

cat(paste("Hi",sep='\n',"Hello")) gives me

Hi

Hello

 

And when I try
cat(paste("Hi",sep='\n',"Hello"),sep='\n',data.frame(rep("a",3),rep("b",
3))) I get an error!

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

Regards

Ravi

 

 

 

 

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Ravi S. Shankar <ravis <at> ambaresearch.com> writes:
> I am trying to get an output like this
> Hi
> Hello
> 1           a           b
# The easy way: good for logging of results, but commands print too,
# depending how you run it
df = data.frame(a=rep("a",3),b=rep("b",3))
sink(file="a.txt")
cat("Hello\n")
print(df)
sink()

# a bit better
cat("Hello\n",file="b.txt")
write.table(df,file="b.txt",append=TRUE,col.names=FALSE,
  row.names=FALSE,quote=FALSE)


Dieter