[R] writing a data frame in excel format

Petr Pikal petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Tue Apr 26 09:50:49 CEST 2005


Hi Arne

On 26 Apr 2005 at 9:29, Arne Henningsen wrote:

> I save my data(frames) in csv format, which can be opened by any
> spreadsheet application:
> 
> R> write.table( myData, "myFile.csv", col.names = NA, sep = "," )

Or you can write it as

write.table(r.data.frame, "excel.file.xls", sep="\t", na="", 
row.names=F)

which I can usually open in Excel just by clicking on it.

Cheers
Petr

> 
> Arne
> 
> On Tuesday 26 April 2005 04:28, Mario Morales wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I know how read a file in excel format into a R data frame using the
> > RODBC library, but I don't know how write a R data frame in excel
> > format. I don't understand the instructions from RODBC user manual.
> >
> > To read an excel file I use.
> >
> > library(RODBC);
> >
> > conex<-odbcConnectExcel("fis_quim.xls");
> >
> > sqlTables(conex);
> >
> > data<-sqlFetch(conex,"hoja1");
> >
> > Suppose I modify data and I want to save it as an excel file, How do
> > I do that?
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Mario Alfonso Morales Rivera
> > Profesor Auxiliar.
> > Departamento de Matemáticas y Estadistica.
> > Universidad de Córdoba.
> >
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