[R] write text file as output without quotes

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 15:24:42 CEST 2009


But did you try the help for write.table() ???

    write.table(x, file = "", append = FALSE, quote = TRUE, sep = " ",
                 eol = "\n", na = "NA", dec = ".", row.names = TRUE,
                 col.names = TRUE, qmethod = c("escape", "double"))

Set quote=FALSE.

Sarah

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Ravi S. Shankar <ravis at ambaresearch.com> wrote:
> Hi R,
>
>
>
> When I use the below to write the text file
>
> try=data.frame(rep("a",5), rep("b",5))
>
> write.table(try,"z:\\try.txt",row.names=F,col.names=F,sep="\t")
>
>
>
> the output contains two columns with quotes! Is there a way to write
> without quotes?
>
> I tried
>
> try[,1]=noquote(try[,1])
>
> try[,2]=noquote(try[,2])
>
>

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