write.csv naming file after function argument

Hi Kristian,

If I understand correctly, you probably want to use paste():

myfun <- function(x=peter){
   y <- x/2
   filename <- paste(x, ".csv", sep="")
   write.csv(y, file = filename)
}

HTH,
Ivan

Le 10/13/2011 11:52, Kristian Lind a ?crit :

Dear R-users,

I'm writing a program that constructs a dataset. I wish to save the dataset
to a file.

Here's a very simple example of what I'm trying to do

function(x=peter){
y<- x/2
write.csv(y, file = "...\x")
}

The problem is that I want to name the dataset as whatever the name of the
input is. In this case peter.
How do I do this?

Thank you in advance.

Kristian

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