Handling of tables in R
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Romain Francois wrote:
Le 19.08.2005 11:22, Anne a ?crit :
Save your table in a text file ( see ?write.table ) with the separator set to "\t" ; you can then import it into excel for the nb of digits use
options(digits=3)
Only for printing in R: see below for other suggestions.
And if you run R on windows (just a guess because you didn't tell), the saving-to-a-file part is not necessary. use : R> write.table(your.data.frame, file='clipboard') and on excel "paste", your data should magically appear on excel ...
You are likely to be better off with write.csv(). There _is_ a manual (`R Data Import/Export') about this. (In particular, the default setting for col.names in write.table is not usually what Excel usually expects, and the default separator is space, so you better not have spaces (or for Anne's suggestion, tabs) in the data.)
Peter Dalgaard pointed out that write.table defaults to quoting, so it is quotes in fields that would be a problem not tabs/spaces. However, write.csv() is set up with the correct options for that, and also for the header line if row names are written (the default).
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595