R help - May 2010 - writing string values from a matrix to a file without enclosing quotes

I am trying to format data for the Geneland package
I need to write a series of paired numbers and paired "000"
to a plain ascii file without surrounding the numerals with quotes,
the original data is in a matrix formatted paired  strings,
and written to file using
write.table(x,"output filename",col.names=F,row.names=F)
thus
"77 79" "132 132" "000 000"
"179 181" "132 132" "150 150"
"179 179" "132 132" "000 000"
"179 179" "132 134" "150 152"

however I need the output file without the quotes but retaining 000 not 
reducing it to 0

thus
77 79 132 132 000 000
179 181 132 132 150 150
179 179 132 132 000 000
179 179 132 134 150 152

How might I achieve this?

Thanks

Nevil Amos

Hi Nevli,

Take a look at the "quote" argument under ?write.table.

In your case

write.table(x, "output filename", col.names = F, row.names = F, quote
FALSE)

should do what you want.

HTH,
Jorge


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Nevil Amos <> wrote:
> I am trying to format data for the Geneland package
> I need to write a series of paired numbers and paired "000"
> to a plain ascii file without surrounding the numerals with quotes,
> the original data is in a matrix formatted paired  strings,
> and written to file using
> write.table(x,"output filename",col.names=F,row.names=F)
> thus
> "77 79" "132 132" "000 000"
> "179 181" "132 132" "150 150"
> "179 179" "132 132" "000 000"
> "179 179" "132 134" "150 152"
>
> however I need the output file without the quotes but retaining 000 not
> reducing it to 0
>
> thus
> 77 79 132 132 000 000
> 179 181 132 132 150 150
> 179 179 132 132 000 000
> 179 179 132 134 150 152
>
> How might I achieve this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nevil Amos
>
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