[R] write table without quotation marks in column names....

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Thu May 30 13:17:41 CEST 2013


On 13-05-30 4:28 AM, Pascal Oettli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did you read the help page?
>
> ?write.table
>
> Arguments
>
> quote	
> a logical value (TRUE or FALSE) or a numeric vector. If TRUE, any
> character or factor columns will be surrounded by double quotes. If a
> numeric vector, its elements are taken as the indices of columns to
> quote. In both cases, row and column names are quoted if they are
> written. If FALSE, nothing is quoted.

Those last two sentences seem contradictory at first, but they are not. 
  The "both cases" in the second last one refers to the cases quote=TRUE 
and having it set to a numeric vector.

Duncan

>
> Regards,
> Pascal
>
>
>
> On 05/30/2013 05:13 PM, Witold E Wolski wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> write.table
>> likes to quote (") the column and row names.
>>
>> Is there a way to switch it off?
>>
>> Witold
>>
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