By definition a csv is comma-separated so you can't set a separator. The general function which you seem to be seeking is write.table
Michael On May 12, 2012, at 3:33 PM, DL <chombito...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to write data to csv but I am having issues with the separations. > > Basically I have some results that I get with R that I copied and pasted > into word and then saved as .txt > > I want to write the results to csv because it's easier to make tables in > word (all I would have to do is copy and paste into a table, instead of > typing everything out). > > I am able to write the data to the .csv file but the data is not > comma-delimited when I open the file. Everything is written into the first > cell. > > These are the various commands that I have been inputting: > > write.csv(practice, file.choose(new=T), quote=F, row.names=F) > > write.csv(practice, file.choose(new=T), sep=",", quote=F, row.names=F) > Warning message: > In write.csv(practice, file.choose(new = T), sep = ",", quote = F, : > attempt to set 'sep' ignored > > write.table(practice, file = > "C:/Users/User/Documents/Documents/Proyectodeafroantillanos/Laterals/practice.csv", > sep="\t", quote=F, row.names=F) > > write.csv(practice, file = > "C:/Users/User/Documents/Documents/Proyectodeafroantillanos/Laterals/practice.csv") > >> write.csv(practice, file = >> "C:/Users/User/Documents/Documents/Proyectodeafroantillanos/Laterals/practice.csv", >> row.names=FALSE) > > write.csv(practice, file = > "C:/Users/User/Documents/Documents/Proyectodeafroantillanos/Laterals/practice.csv", > sep = "\t", row.names=FALSE) > Warning message: > In write.csv(practice, file = > "C:/Users/User/Documents/Documents/Proyectodeafroantillanos/Laterals/practice.csv", > > : > attempt to set 'sep' ignored > > > As you can see, the commands in which I write to csv and set "sep" I get a > message saying that attempt to set "sep" ignored. All the other commands > work but I don't get a comma-delimited nor a tab-delimited file. > > Am I doing something wrong? > > Thank you. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Help-with-writing-data-to-csv-tp4629436.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
