Hello,
Alright, I did not look at it that way I admit. I built a matrix with
multiple row names (as a data.frame). Confusion started when exporting
this as a spread-sheet.
Now it all works fine.
Thanks and sorry for the false alarm,
Axel
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> It seems that you are the one who is confused: the help file says
>
> By default there is no column name for a column of row names. If
> 'col.names = NA' a blank column name is added.
>
> If there are no row names, there is no point in adding a blank column
> name for them. So what did *you* think it would do?
>
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Full_Name: Axel Rasche
>> Version: 2.1.0
>> OS: Win2000
>> Submission from: (NULL) (141.14.21.81)
>>
>>
>> write.table does not accept the second statement with
>> <col.names = NA, row.names = FALSE>.
>> I do not see why this should not be possible.
>>
>> test = matrix(1:4, 2, 2, dimnames = list( c("a","b"), c("c","d") ))
>> write.table(test, file = "test.txt", sep = "\t", quote = FALSE,
>> col.names = NA, row.names = FALSE)
>> write.table(test, file = "test.txt", sep = "\t", quote = FALSE,
>> col.names = NA)
>> write.table(test, file = "test.txt", sep = "\t", quote = FALSE,
>> col.names = TRUE, row.names = FALSE)
>> write.table(test, file = "test.txt", sep = "\t", quote = FALSE,
>> col.names = FALSE, row.names = FALSE)
>
>
>
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