[R] Writing text files out of a dataset

[Jeff Newmiller]

This presumes that 'data[["material"]]' is numeric.

It is unnecessary to put the output data into a separate vector d (it is already in a vector that is part of the 'data' data frame).  I would just overwrite `d` (or `d1`) each time through the loop:

 for (i in seq_along( data[["material"]] ) ){
    d <- data[i,c("material")]
    fileConn <- file(paste0("TESTI/d", i, ".txt"))
    writeLines(d, fileConn)
    close(fileConn)
}

or

for ( i in seq_along( data[["material"]] ) ){
   writeLines( data[i,c("material")], file=paste0("TESTI/d", i, ".txt" ) )
}
-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On December 29, 2017 9:49:20 AM PST, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>You have to create the vector 'd' outside the loop before using it.
>
>d <- numeric(nrow(data))
>
>Only then comes the loop.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Rui Barradas
>
>On 12/29/2017 2:31 PM, Luca Meyer wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to run the following syntax for all cases within the
>dataframe
>> "data"
>> 
>> d1 <- data[1,c("material")]
>> fileConn<-file("TESTI/d1.txt")
>> writeLines(d1, fileConn)
>> close(fileConn)
>> 
>> I am trying to use the for function:
>> 
>>   for (i in 1:nrow(data)){
>>    d[i] <- data[i,c("material")]
>>    fileConn<-file("TESTI/d[i].txt")
>>    writeLines(d[i], fileConn)
>>    close(fileConn)
>> }
>> 
>> but I get the error:
>> 
>> Object "d" not found
>> 
>> Any suggestion on how I can solve the above?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Luca
>> 
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