The word 'format' is the clue: please consult the help page for the R function format().
write.table is designed to write a table to be processed by a program, not for human consumption. The print() method for data frames calls format(). On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Yuandan Zhang wrote: > Hi, > how to write out data frame in format? for examples, I wrote out a data > using 'write.table(siredata, file='siredata.txt', row.names=F, > quote=F)'. > > it produced data alike this: > > > 2882 1 0 0 0 0 L1600481991910012 L1600011988880196 > 2883 0.79 0.21 0 0 21 L1622881993930001 L1600481991910012 > 2884 0.84 0.16 0 0 23 L1622881993930005 L1600481991910012 > 2885 0.9 0.1 0 0 23 L1622881993930027 L1600481991910012 > 2886 0.87 0.13 0 0 23 L1622881993930038 L1600481991910012 > 2887 0.9 0.1 0 0 27 L1622881993930111 L1600481991910012 > 2888 0.81 0.19 0 0 22 L1622881993930113 L1600481991910012 > > In fact i want it formated as > 2882 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 L1600481991910012 L1600011988880196 > 2883 0.79 0.21 0.00 0.00 21 L1622881993930001 L1600481991910012 > 2884 0.84 0.16 0.00 0.00 23 L1622881993930005 L1600481991910012 > 2885 0.90 0.10 0.00 0.00 23 L1622881993930027 L1600481991910012 > 2886 0.87 0.13 0.00 0.00 23 L1622881993930038 L1600481991910012 > 2887 0.90 0.10 0.00 0.00 27 L1622881993930111 L1600481991910012 > 2888 0.81 0.19 0.00 0.00 22 L1622881993930113 L1600481991910012 > > Thanks for your help > > Yuandan > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
