[R] saving a data.frame to "\t" files

Philipp Pagel p.pagel at gsf.de
Thu Mar 11 19:16:27 CET 2004


> could somebody pleaseeeeeeeee help with saving a data.frame with
> column names into "\t" text files for later importing in other
> programs? It seems an easy task, yet... it beats me.

write.table(mydf, file="foo.tbl", sep="\t", col.names=T)

Where mydf is your data frame.

If you don't want quoting you can also add 'quote=FALSE'

cu
	Philipp

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