[R] how do I exort a list of numbers into csv file?

Jim Holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 05:43:38 CET 2012


michael,

what is the problem you are trying to solve?  are you writing it out so you can read it back in?  if  so, look at 'save/load' or 'dump/source'.  is this the format required by some other program?

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On Feb 5, 2012, at 21:54, baptiste auguie <baptiste.auguie at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If you don't mind having NAs for missing values, try the following,
> 
> mylist = list(1:3, 4:7)
> library(plyr)
> write.csv(do.call(rbind.fill.matrix, lapply(mylist, matrix, nrow=1)), file="")
> 
> HTH,
> 
> b.
> 
> On 6 February 2012 15:01, Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a list of vector of numbers - the reason I used list of vector was
>> that I each list have different numbers of numbers which I don't know
>> before run-time.
>> 
>> mylist[[1]]  = c(1, 2, 3)
>> mylist[[2]] = c (3, 4, 5, 6)
>> ...
>> ...
>> etc.
>> 
>> Could you please tell me if there is a way to dump all these at once into
>> csv file such that each row correspond to a vector or a cell of the list as
>> shown above?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!
>> 
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