I would like to export a dataframe to a .csv using: >write.csv(dataframe,"dataframe.csv")
but I need to add four "header" lines to the csv that are not part of the dataframe (which itself has a line of column headers). The difficulty (for me, at least!) lies in the requirement that certain elements of the header (X, Y and the number of "Q"s - please see example below) must be defined based on the number of rows and columns in the dataframe, which vary depending on the input file. Here's what the 3 .csv header lines should look like, followed by a number of dataframe rows (i.e., these lines are not R code, but are what R will produce). X, plots ,,,, #where X=number of rows in the dataframe Y, species,,,, #where Y=number of columns in the dataframe ,Q,Q,Q,Q,Q #where the number of Qs=the number of columns in the dataframe Those 3 .csv header lines would be followed by dataframe, which consists of one row containing column headers and X "data" rows: ,spec1,spec2,spec3,sp3c4,spec5 #these are the dataframe's column headers plot1,15.84,0,0,792,7 #this is an example "data" row In case the above is unclear, I have also attached a small .csv as an example of what the output should look like. Thank you. Mark
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