[R] Writing out data

Ivan Calandra ivan.calandra at u-bourgogne.fr
Thu Feb 2 13:56:56 CET 2012


Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that write.csv() doesn't have an 
append argument; write.table() does though.

Ivan

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Le 02/02/12 13:43, Paul Hiemstra a écrit :
> On 02/02/2012 11:40 AM, Thomas wrote:
>> What is the best way to write out comma separated data, as a program
>> is running (rather than waiting to the end using write.csv)? At the
>> moment I'm doing this, but I guess it's not the most efficient. The
>> data is in a column in the matrix postcount, and I'm using a loop to
>> write out each of the 100 elements.
>>
>> for (j in 1:100)
>> {
>> cat(postcount[1,j], ",", file=filename, append=TRUE)
>> }
>> cat("\n", file=filename, append=TRUE)
>>
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Thomas
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> Hi,
>
> write.csv also supports an append argument. Maybe that is faster than
> using cat.
>
> cheers,
> Paul
>



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