[R] Writing as matrix

[Spencer Graves]

      What version of R under which operating system? 

      I just tried something similar and got something sensible, as 
follows: 

set.seed(1)
e1 <- array(1:6, dim=c(3,2),
     dimnames=list(NULL, LETTERS[1:2]))
e2 <- array(rnorm(6), dim=c(3,2),
     dimnames=list(NULL, letters[1:2]))
e12 <- cor(e1, e2)
e12. <- round(e12)

sink("e12.txt")
e12.
sink()

#####################
      File "e12.txt" contained the following: 

  a  b
A 0 -1
B 0 -1

      An alternative is the following: 

write.table(e12., "e12.csv", quote=FALSE)

      File "e12.csv" contained the same as *.txt. 

      Are your names actually "A", "B", etc., or do they include long 
character strings?  If the latter, that would explain what you got.  If 
the former, what do you get from "options()$width"?  I suspect it may be 
some small number. 

      hope this helps. 
      spencer graves
p.s.  Did you read the posting guide, 
"http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html"?  If you had followed that 
more carefully, especially regarding supplying a real, simple example 
with a few lines that would illustrate your problem, you would have 
gotten a quicker answer. 
p.p.s.  I found "options()$width" from "www.r-project.org" -> search -> 
"R site search" -> "output line width".  It was in the sixth hit. 

Srinivas Iyyer wrote:

>Dear Group, I am calculating correlation coeff.
>between two populations. After calculating the
>cor.coefs I want to represent them as a matrix file. 
>
>   a   b   c   d
>A  1   0   1   1
>B  1   1   1   1 
>C  1   0   1   0
>D  0   1   1   1 
>
>
>could any one please help me how can i acheive this:
>
>  
>
>>dim(e1)
>>    
>>
>[1] 22283    60
>  
>
>>dim(e2)
>>    
>>
>[1] 22283   158
>  
>
>>sink("old_new.txt")
>>round(cor(cbind(e1,e2),use="complete.obs"))
>>sink()
>>    
>>
>
>Currently this is the way my result looksL
>            a
>A           1
>B           1
>C           1
>D           0
>            b
>A           0
>B           1
>C           0
>D           1
>
>
>
>
>I want to see my result as:
>   a   b   c   d
>A  1   0   1   1
>B  1   1   1   1 
>C  1   0   1   0
>D  0   1   1   1 
>
>
>thankyou 
>srini
>
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