Petr Pikal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> did you tried something like
> 
> write.table( tab, "file.txt", sep="\t", row.names=F)
> 
> which writes to tab separated file?
> 

Petr thanks, but I do not want a tab delimited file. I need spaces
between columns.

> 
> On 21 Nov 2005 at 11:56, Gregor Gorjanc wrote:
> 
> Date sent:            Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:56:48 +0100
> From:                 Gregor Gorjanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization:         University of Ljubljana
> To:                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:              [R] Is there anything like a write.fwf() or possibility 
> to print a
>       data.frame without rownames?
> Send reply to:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>       <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> 
>>Dear R users,
>>
>>R has read.fwf() function, however I would need write.fwf. I know
>>other write.* functions, but I need fixed width format of data, which
>>I would like to export from R. I tried to use:
>>
>>- write.table, but I can not control alignment of columns
>>
>>- write.matrix from MASS, but columns are to wide
>>
>>I came to this option, which is very neat:
>>
>># tmp is data.frame
>>
>>sink(file = file)
>>print(tmp)
>>sink()
>>
>>This works very nice, but I would like to get rid of rownames, which
>>are always printed.
>>
>>Another not so important issue is width of printed columns. I presume
>>this is determined by max(length column name, max(length of "values"
>>in a column)) but sometimes it would be usefull to control width of
>>columns also.
>>
>>Can someone help me with this issue?
>>

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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
    Gregor Gorjanc

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