[R] Combine lists into a data frame or append them to a text file

[Bert Gunter]

FWIW, I had no trouble writing a test case to a file with either version of
your code. As we have no idea what your data look like, I don't know how
anyone can diagnose the problem. But maybe I'm wrong and someone else will
recognize the issue.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 7:28 PM Ek Esawi <esawiek using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have an R object that is made up of N number of lists which are all
> of different number of columns and rows.  I want to combine the N
> lists into a single data frame or write (append) them into text file.
> I hope the question is clear and doesn’t require an example. I am
> hoping to accomplish this using base R functions.
> Below is what I tried but both gave me the same error which I do
> understand, I think, but I don’t know how to fix it. My R object is
> MyTables
>
> lapply(MyTables, function(x) write.table(x, file = "Temp.txt",append =
> TRUE ))
> OR
> for (i in 1:length(MyTables)) {
> write.table(MyTables[i], file = "Temp.txt",append = TRUE,quote = TRUE)
>
> the error
> Error in (function (..., row.names = NULL, check.rows = FALSE,
> check.names = TRUE,  :
>   arguments imply differing number of rows: 51, 8, 30
>
> Thanks--EK
>
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