[R] Export to File...

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 2 May 2001 Ko-Kang at xtra.co.nz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been reading the Data Import and Export manual (page 25 on Connection
> chapter) but somehow I can't manage to get what I want.

(page numbers depend on your formatting: I get page 25 in an index.)

> I have a 28x28 distance matrix, which I would like to export to a file.
> What I did was something like:
>     zz <- file("ex.data", "w")  # open an output file connection
>     cat( traffic.manDist, file = zz )  # traffic.manDist is my matrix name
>     close(zz)
>
> But instead of exporting the matrix, it export each number in the matrix and
> separating each number into one line!

If you mean that all the numbers appear on one line separated by spaces,
that's what cat() does given a matrix: you got what you asked for.  Try it
at the console.

> Can anyone tell me where I did wrong?  Much appreciated!

If you want to export a matrix to a text file, read the section on `export
to text files', which is way before page 25.


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