Writing to a file
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
Would the following do? x <- 1000 write.table(Info[Info[,4] > x, c(1, 4)], file="/tmp/CT.dat") Andy
From: Melanie Vida Here is a simple question. Is there a quicker way to write to a file several rows of data at a time rather than one line at a time? How can the code below be optimized to write several rows at a time to a file rather than one line at a time. See my slow method of write.table below:
There is almost no penalty in writing a line at a time *if* you open a connection and write to that. It might save you if Andy's solution runs you out of memory. I would investigate doing this is large blocks of rows in that case.
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x<-1000
for( i in 1:385420)
(
if(Info[i,4] > x)
write.table (cbind(Info[i,1], Info[i,4], file="/tmp/CT.dat",
append=TRUE, row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE)
Thanks,
-Melanie
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