Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.33.0104120936190.60936-100000@homer24.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2001-04-12T16:38:04Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Write to a file
In-Reply-To: <002d01c0c36d$8b5c2fa0$1000a8c0@COPPER>
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Hongli Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write a vector of list in to a file. I used the following
> write(result,file="ttest.txt")
> I got an error message
> Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) :
> argument 1 not yet handled by cat
>
> Then I tested the property of my object
>
> > is.vector(result[])
> [1] TRUE
>
> > is.list(result[])
> [1] TRUE
>
> > is.list(result)
> [1] TRUE
>
> > is.vector(result)
> [1] TRUE
>
> I don't understand why my list of vector can not be handled by cat.
>
write is for writing matrices. As the documentation for write() suggests,
see save() and write.table() for other possibilities (and dump())
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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