Hi R, When I use the below to write the text file try=data.frame(rep("a",5), rep("b",5)) write.table(try,"z:\\try.txt",row.names=F,col.names=F,sep="\t") the output contains two columns with quotes! Is there a way to write without quotes? I tried try[,1]=noquote(try[,1]) try[,2]=noquote(try[,2]) Thank you, Regards, Ravi Shankar This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}}
But did you try the help for write.table() ??? write.table(x, file = "", append = FALSE, quote = TRUE, sep = " ", eol = "\n", na = "NA", dec = ".", row.names = TRUE, col.names = TRUE, qmethod = c("escape", "double")) Set quote=FALSE. Sarah On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Ravi S. Shankar <ravis at ambaresearch.com> wrote:> Hi R, > > > > When I use the below to write the text file > > try=data.frame(rep("a",5), rep("b",5)) > > write.table(try,"z:\\try.txt",row.names=F,col.names=F,sep="\t") > > > > the output contains two columns with quotes! Is there a way to write > without quotes? > > I tried > > try[,1]=noquote(try[,1]) > > try[,2]=noquote(try[,2]) > >-- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org
Hi, you shouldn't call your variable try, see ?try for help on this function. write.table has a paramter called quotes. just set this to FALSE to produce your wanted output: t=data.frame(rep("a",5), rep("b",5)) write.table(t,"z:\\try.txt",row.names=F,col.names=F,sep="\t", quotes=FALSE) regards, Thomas Liebig Ravi S. Shankar schrieb:> Hi R, > > > > When I use the below to write the text file > > try=data.frame(rep("a",5), rep("b",5)) > > write.table(try,"z:\\try.txt",row.names=F,col.names=F,sep="\t") > > > > the output contains two columns with quotes! Is there a way to write > without quotes? > > I tried > > try[,1]=noquote(try[,1]) > > try[,2]=noquote(try[,2]) > > > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > Ravi Shankar-- Thomas Liebig Fraunhofer-Institut f?r Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme (IAIS) Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Email: thomas.liebig at iais.fraunhofer.de Phone: +49 2241 142050 Fax: +49 2241 142072
?write.table write.table(..., quote=FALSE) On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Ravi S. Shankar <ravis at ambaresearch.com> wrote:> Hi R, > > > > When I use the below to write the text file > > try=data.frame(rep("a",5), rep("b",5)) > > write.table(try,"z:\\try.txt",row.names=F,col.names=F,sep="\t") > > > > the output contains two columns with quotes! Is there a way to write > without quotes? > > I tried > > try[,1]=noquote(try[,1]) > > try[,2]=noquote(try[,2]) > > > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > Ravi Shankar > > > > > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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?