Mehmet Suzen <msuzen <at> mango-solutions.com> writes:
> This might be obvious but I was wondering if anyone knows quick and easy
> way of writing out a CSV file with varying row lengths, ideally an
> initial data read from a CSV file which has the same format. See example
> below.
>
> writeLines(c("A,B,C,D",
> "1,a,b,c",
> "2,f,g,c",
> "3,a,i,j",
> "4,a,b,c",
> "5,d,e,f",
> "6,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n"),
> con=file("test.csv"))
>
X <- read.csv("test.csv")
It's not that pretty, but something like
tmpf <- function(x) paste(x[nzchar(x)],collapse=",")
writeLines(apply(as.matrix(X),1,tmpf),con="outfile.csv")
might work
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