What about sink()? see help(sink) greetings
jan On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Randy Zelick wrote: > Hello there, > > Using R 1.8.1 and WinXP... > > I would like to write a disk file (ascii text) of an R data frame. When I > type the name of the object in the console window, it is sensibly and > nicely formatted. When I use write.table, it is *not*, because the > separation character is just a space. > > I looked through the introductory material (my level) on the R website, > but did not find a reference to this issue. > > At a minimum I suppose there is a way to insert a tab character in the > sep=" " field, but I don't know how to do that. Alternatively, I could > deal with a variable specifying fixed-field widths for each of the > variables in the frame. Didn't find that either. > > Even so, you would loose the right-justification and the fact that R seems > to take into account the width of the largest value in a column. > > Of course the really slick deal would be to have paginated output where > the column titles repeat at the top of the page (having entered a > parameter for the number of lines on your page after margins and so > forth). > > A somewhat brutal solution would be to create all the text strings for > making a LaTex document/table environment and write all that stuff out to > the text file. Please don't tell me I have to do that! > > So is there a function for producing a file on disk with the same > formatting as the screen? > > Thanks, > > =Randy= > > R. Zelick email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Department of Biology voice: 503-725-3086 > Portland State University fax: 503-725-3888 > > mailing: > P.O. Box 751 > Portland, OR 97207 > > shipping: > 1719 SW 10th Ave, Room 246 > Portland, OR 97201 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- +----------------------------------------- Jan Goebel j g o e b e l @ d i w . d e DIW Berlin German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) K�nigin-Luise-Str. 5 D-14195 Berlin -- Germany -- phone: 49 30 89789-377 +----------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
