[R] Is there anything like a write.fwf() or possibility to print a data.frame without rownames?

[Petr Pikal]

Hi

did you tried something like

write.table( tab, "file.txt", sep="\t", row.names=F)

which writes to tab separated file?

Petr



On 21 Nov 2005 at 11:56, Gregor Gorjanc wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:56:48 +0100
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> Dear R users,
> 
> R has read.fwf() function, however I would need write.fwf. I know
> other write.* functions, but I need fixed width format of data, which
> I would like to export from R. I tried to use:
> 
> - write.table, but I can not control alignment of columns
> 
> - write.matrix from MASS, but columns are to wide
> 
> I came to this option, which is very neat:
> 
> # tmp is data.frame
> 
> sink(file = file)
> print(tmp)
> sink()
> 
> This works very nice, but I would like to get rid of rownames, which
> are always printed.
> 
> Another not so important issue is width of printed columns. I presume
> this is determined by max(length column name, max(length of "values"
> in a column)) but sometimes it would be usefull to control width of
> columns also.
> 
> Can someone help me with this issue?
> 
> -- 
> Lep pozdrav / With regards,
>     Gregor Gorjanc
> 
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Petr Pikal
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