R help - Sep 2009 - write.table column names shift

Hi everyone,

I want to write some data to file, for example

a = c(1,2,3,4,5)
b = c(5,6,7,8,9)

write.table(cbind(a,b), file = "R output.csv", sep = ",")

The result is this:

a	b	
1	1	5
2	2	6
3	3	7
4	4	8
5	5	9

It added an index and shifted the column names by one, b is above a, and a
is above the added index.

Does anybody know a way to prevent this shift from happening? Thanks in
advance.

Kind regards,

Dennis
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On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:07:49 -0700 (PDT) dennis11
<detebeest at hotmail.com> wrote:

D> It added an index and shifted the column names by one, b is above a,
D> and a is above the added index.

Try the option row.names=FALSE in write.table then no index is written.

Stefan