Thanks Marc. It works. I had not thought of using col.names = FALSE as I wanted to keep the colnames. I see that I will just have to do another write.table command to do this. Humm, actually it took a a bit of juggling to do the names but it's looking fine now.
--- Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 11:41 -0400, John Kane wrote: > > Is there any convenient way to supress the x that > > appears in csv export files? I would like to be > able > > to export a file and add a comment to it yet still > be > > able to read it back into R. I don't see any way > to > > get rid of the x that seperates the different > appended > > parts. > > > > Thanks > > > > EXAMPLE > > > > x > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > x > > #Results from file SSS.r > > > > R.2.5.1 Windows XP > > John, > > Try this: > > > write.table(head(iris), sep = ",", > row.names = FALSE, col.names = FALSE) > 5.1,3.5,1.4,0.2,"setosa" > 4.9,3,1.4,0.2,"setosa" > 4.7,3.2,1.3,0.2,"setosa" > 4.6,3.1,1.5,0.2,"setosa" > 5,3.6,1.4,0.2,"setosa" > 5.4,3.9,1.7,0.4,"setosa" > > > You may need to explicitly adjust other arguments > that are otherwise set > to defaults when using write.csv(). > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
