[R] How to export text into separate text files

John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Tue Oct 28 15:31:50 CET 2008


"jim holtman" <jholtman at gmail.com>  just answered a similar question for someone who wanted to input txt files.  His suggestion is below.  It should work for output as well

Jim Holtman's suggestion.
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for (i in 2:4){
    input <- read.delim(paste('vegetation_', i, '.txt', sep=''))
    ,,,, process the file ....
}

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--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi> wrote:

> From: Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi>
> Subject: [R] How to export text into separate text files
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Received: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 10:26 AM
> Hello,
> 
> I'm producing text from my data.frame using cat
> function. I would like
> to use for loop to export each column in my data.frame into
> separate
> text files. Here is the example code
> 
> r <- t(Indometh)
> for (i in 1:ncol(r)) {
>      cat("Some text,", "\n")
>      cat("\n")
>      cat("More text, More text, More text")
>      cat("\n")
>      cat(paste(names(r[!is.na(r[,i]), i]), ":",
> as.character(r[!is.na(r[,i]), i]), "\n"))
>      cat("-----------------------------------",
> "\n")
> }
> 
> So, each of these columns (results between --- and ---)
> should be
> exported into separate text files e.g. file1.txt,
> file2.txt, file3.txt
> etc.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lauri
> 
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