[R] writing 'output.csv' file

[Chuck Cleland]

On 12/4/2009 5:12 AM, Maithili Shiva wrote:
> Dear R helpers
>  
> Suppose 
>  
> M <- c(1:10)      #  length(M) = 10
> N <- c(25:50)     #  length(N) = 26 
>  
> I wish to have an outut file giving M and N. So I have tried
>  
> write.csv(data.frame(M, N), 'output.csv', row.names = FALSE)
>  
> but I get the following error message 
>  
> Error in data.frame(M, N) : 
>   arguments imply differing number of rows: 10, 26
>  
> How do I modify my write.csv command to get my output in a single (csv) file irrespective of lengths.

  The first argument to write.csv() is "preferably a matrix or data
frame".  If it is something else, write.csv() will try to make it a data
frame.  You may want to create the data frame like this:

data.frame(M = c(M, rep(NA,length(N) - length(M))), N=N)

    M  N
1   1 25
2   2 26
3   3 27
4   4 28
5   5 29
6   6 30
7   7 31
8   8 32
9   9 33
10 10 34
11 NA 35
12 NA 36
13 NA 37
14 NA 38
15 NA 39
16 NA 40
17 NA 41
18 NA 42
19 NA 43
20 NA 44
21 NA 45
22 NA 46
23 NA 47
24 NA 48
25 NA 49
26 NA 50

> Plese Guide
>  
> Thanks in advance
>  
> Maithili
>  
> 
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