Hi All,
This may be trivial in R but I have been trying with
out any success. I have a list of 100 elements each
having a sub list of different length. I would like to
write the list to a ASCII file. I tried with
write.table(), after converting my list to a matrix.
Now it looks like
Robert c("90", "50", "30")
John c("91", "20", "25", "45")
How can I get rid off c("", ..)? In my file, I would
like to have
Robert 90, 50, 30
John 91, 20, 25, 45
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ezhil
as.numeric? E.g. R> res [1] "90" "50" "30" R> as.numeric(res) [1] 90 50 30 A Ezhil wrote:> Hi All, > > This may be trivial in R but I have been trying with > out any success. I have a list of 100 elements each > having a sub list of different length. I would like to > write the list to a ASCII file. I tried with > write.table(), after converting my list to a matrix. > Now it looks like > > Robert c("90", "50", "30") > John c("91", "20", "25", "45") > > How can I get rid off c("", ..)? In my file, I would > like to have > > Robert 90, 50, 30 > John 91, 20, 25, 45 > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Ezhil > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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-- __________________________________________ Kristel Joossens Ph.D. Student Research Center ORSTAT K.U. Leuven Naamsestraat 69 Tel: +32 16 326929 3000 Leuven, Belgium Fax: +32 16 326732 E-mail: Kristel.Joossens at econ.kuleuven.be http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/public/ndbae49 Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
Here is a function I use to send lists to ASCII files.
list2ascii <-
function(x,file=paste(deparse(substitute(x)),".txt",sep=""))
{
# MHP July 7, 2004
# R or S function to write an R list to an ASCII file.
# This can be used to create files for those who want to use
# a spreadsheet or other program on the data.
#
tmp.wid = getOption("width") # save current width
options(width=10000) # increase output width
sink(file) # redirect output to file
print(x) # print the object
sink() # cancel redirection
options(width=tmp.wid) # restore linewidth
return(invisible(NULL)) # return (nothing) from function
}
I hope it's helpful.
To write it to a file that can be read by R, I would suggest using
"dput" instead.
Regards,
Mike Prager
A Ezhil wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>This may be trivial in R but I have been trying with
>out any success. I have a list of 100 elements each
>having a sub list of different length. I would like to
>write the list to a ASCII file. I tried with
>write.table(), after converting my list to a matrix.
>Now it looks like
>
>Robert c("90", "50", "30")
>John c("91", "20", "25", "45")
>
>How can I get rid off c("", ..)? In my file, I would
>like to have
>
>Robert 90, 50, 30
>John 91, 20, 25, 45
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
>Ezhil
>
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>
>