[R] dimnames

John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Fri Feb 15 00:27:36 CET 2008


?write.table  and look at the row.names arguement
which is what they are called in this instance.

write.table(XX, file="XX.txt",quote=FALSE,sep="\t",
row.names=FALSE)


--- Roberto Olivares Hernandez <roh at bio.dtu.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I used the write.table function to save data in txt
> file, and this is the output:
> 
> 
> V1      V2      V3      V4
> 1       YAL005C  21      14      11
> 2       YAL007C   2       1       4
> 3       YAL012W   8      16       3
> 4       YAL016W  24      23      23
> 5       YAL019W   3       3       2
> 6       YAL020C   2       4       2
> 7       YAL021C   7       5       5
> 8       YAL022C   3       1       2
> 
> 
> but I  need to remove the dimnames  (first column)
> 
> I tried to use dimnames function to remove it and
> then save it, but still, the output is the same
> 
> These are the command lines,
> 
> XX         #matrix
> dimnames(XX)<-NULL
> write.table(XX,"XX.txt",quote=FALSE,sep="\t")
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Roberto
> 
> 
> 
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