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Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20050802235932.007b35b0@pop.gmx.net>
Date: 2005-08-02T21:59:32Z
From: Heinz Tuechler
Subject: how to print a data.frame without row.names
In-Reply-To: <x2ek9cl0hy.fsf@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk>

Thanks to all of you for your help.

As far as I see, the solution of Peter Dalgaard works exactly as I want.
All other solutions have limitations.

Heinz

At 19:19 02.08.2005 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> >>>>> "Heinz" == Heinz Tuechler <tuechler at gmx.at>
>> >>>>>     on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:46:07 +0200 writes:
>> 
>>   .......................
>> 
>>     Heinz> I tried this, but then the column headers and column
>>     Heinz> contents are not aligned.
>> 
>>   ........................
>> 
>> Use the tabulator if you need them aligned :
>> 
>> write.table(USArrests, row.names = FALSE, sep = "\t")
>
>Unless a column or a header is 8 chars or wider (and UrbanPop is!).
>
>This seems to do it:
>
>  x <- as.matrix(format(USArrests))
>  rownames(x) <- rep("", nrow(x))
>  print(x, quote=FALSE, right=TRUE)
>
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