R help - Jul 2012 - writing data into files whose names are in a vector

GuRus

How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to achieve
the following please?

age=c(32,37,39)
names=c("john","peter","jake")

I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as john.csv,peter.csv
and jake.csv and each file have data from the age vector. That is jon.csv
will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and jake.csv will contain 39.

Thanks for the help.

Raghu

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In the same context I tried the following but with no results.

mywrite=function(a,b){
write.csv(a,paste(b,".csv")
}
lapply(age,mywrite(age,names))

which produced:
Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) :
  argument 1 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat'

Thanks once again.
Raghu

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Raghuraman Ramachandran <
optionsraghu@gmail.com> wrote:
> GuRus
>
> How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to achieve
> the following please?
>
> age=c(32,37,39)
> names=c("john","peter","jake")
>
> I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as
> john.csv,peter.csv and jake.csv and each file have data from the age
> vector. That is jon.csv will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and
> jake.csv will contain 39.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Raghu
>
>
>
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You have to wrap the write calls in some kind of loop. For your example, you
could use a for loop. If you have multiple rows of one name you might look into
the dlply function from the plyr package and use lapply to do the actual write
calls.
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Raghuraman Ramachandran <optionsraghu at gmail.com> wrote:
>GuRus
>
>How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to
>achieve
>the following please?
>
>age=c(32,37,39)
>names=c("john","peter","jake")
>
>I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as
>john.csv,peter.csv
>and jake.csv and each file have data from the age vector. That is
>jon.csv
>will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and jake.csv will contain
>39.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Raghu
>
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>
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