R help - Aug 2003 - how to specify format of floats for the output file

I'd like to write some numbers to an external file that looks
"pretty" (e.g,
decimal points aligned, same number of decimals). For example, if using
sprintf(), "%5.1f" can be used to specify the format of the float to
be printed
on screen. How can I do the same if I want to write an output file instead? I
have tried cat  and write.table, but none of them worked so far. 

Thanks in advance,

Ping

sprintf() returns a character string that you then can write to file using
cat() or some of its friends.

Henrik Bengtsson

Dept. of Mathematical Statistics @ Centre for Mathematical Sciences 
Lund Institute of Technology/Lund University, Sweden (+2h UTC)
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h b @ m a t h s . l t h . s e, http://www.maths.lth.se/~hb/

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 ping-yin at uiowa.edu wrote:
> I'd like to write some numbers to an external file that looks
"pretty" (e.g,
> decimal points aligned, same number of decimals). For example, if using
> sprintf(), "%5.1f" can be used to specify the format of the float
to be printed
> on screen. How can I do the same if I want to write an output file instead?
I
> have tried cat  and write.table, but none of them worked so far. 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ping
> 
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