Help to write to a file
On Oct 11, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Sergio Ren? Araujo Enciso wrote:
Dear all:
I am having some problems to use the function "sink()". Basically I
am doing
a loop over two files which contain unit-root variables. Then on a
loop, I
extract every i element of both files to create an object called z.
If z
meets some requirements, then I perform a unit root test (ADF test),
otherwise not. As this process is repeated several times, for each i
I want
to get the summary of the ADF test on a common file. For that I use
the
function "sink()". My code runs fine, but I do not get anything
written on
the text file where my results are supposed to be saved. The code is
below
setwd("C:\\Users\\Sergio Ren?\\Dropbox\\R")
library("urca")
P1<-read.csv("2R_EQ_P_R1_500.csv")
P2<-read.csv("2R_EQ_P_R2_500.csv")
d<-(1:1000)
sink ("ADF_results_b_1.txt")
for (i in seq(d))
{
z.1<-P1[i]*-1-P2[i]*-1
if (all(z.1<=0)) {r=1} else {if (all(z.1>=0)) {r=1} else {r=2}}
if (r==1) {ADF<-ur.df(ts(z.1), lags=1, type='drift')}
if (r==1) {summary(ADF)}
You may need to print() that summary-object inside the for-function.
> summary(a)
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
1.00 1.75 2.50 2.50 3.25 4.00
> sink("test.txt")
> for(i in 1) summary(a)
> sink() # No test.txt file created
> sink("test2.txt")
> for(i in 1) print( summary(a) )
> sink() # The expected file created
This relates to the FAQ about similar puzzling behavior with plotting
lattice , grid or ggplot objects.
} sink() Any suggestion of what I might be doing wroong? best regards, Sergio Ren?
David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT