strategy for writing out file with lines header initiated with comment sign

Here is an outline of how to do it using connections:

con <- file('/temp/mytemp.txt', 'w')
writeLines(c("#comment", "# lines", "# in the file"), con = con)
# create some data to be output as 'tab' separated
myData <- as.data.frame(matrix(letters[1:25], 5))
write.table(myData, file = con, sep = '\t')
close(con)
con <- file('/temp/mytemp.txt', 'w')
writeLines(c("#comment", "# lines", "# in the file"), con = con)
# create some data to be output as 'tab' separated
myData <- as.data.frame(matrix(letters[1:25], 5))
write.table(myData, file = con, sep = '\t')
close(con)

strategy for writing out file with lines header initiated with comment sign

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