[R] Writing to a file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> Would the following do?
>
> x <- 1000
> write.table(Info[Info[,4] > x, c(1, 4)], file="/tmp/CT.dat")
>
> Andy
>
>> From: Melanie Vida
>>
>> Here is a simple question. Is there a quicker way to write to a file
>> several rows of data at a time rather than one line at a
>> time? How can
>> the code below be optimized to write several rows at a time to a file
>> rather than one line at a time. See my slow method of
>> write.table below:

There is almost no penalty in writing a line at a time *if* you open a 
connection and write to that.  It might save you if Andy's solution runs 
you out of memory.  I would investigate doing this is large blocks of rows 
in that case.


>>
>> ---------------------------
>> x<-1000
>> for( i in 1:385420)
>>     (
>>     if(Info[i,4] > x)
>>        write.table (cbind(Info[i,1], Info[i,4], file="/tmp/CT.dat",
>> append=TRUE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Melanie
>>
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