[R] Writing Vector to a File

[Gundala Viswanath]

Dear Philipp and Duncan,

I've tried

> write(as.character(myvec), "output.txt", sep="\n")

and

> writeLines(as.character(myvec), "output.txt", sep="\n")

Both yielding same result.

>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 6241

Is there any other possible  explanation, why it
still went wrong?

- Gundala Viswanath
Jakarta - Indonesia


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Philipp Pagel <p.pagel at wzw.tum.de> wrote:
>> I want to print this vector into a file
>>
>> > myvec
>>   [1] --Control --Control --Control --Control --Control HBA2      HBA1
>>   [8] HBA1      --Control HBB       --Control HBB       HBA1      MBP
> [...]
>>
>> However using this command:
>> write(myvec, "output.txt", sep="\n")
>>
>> I get this instead in my output.txt:
>>
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 1
>> 6241
>> 6240
>> 6240
>> 1
>> 6242
>> 1
>> 6242
>> 6240
>> ....
>>
>> What's wrong with my command above?
>
> I think your vector is a factor and what ends up in your file is the
> internal representation of the factor.  Try this instead:
>
> write(as.character(myvec), "output.txt", sep="\n")
>
> cu
>        Philipp
>
>
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