why not write.table with sep="\t"
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Duncan Golicher wrote:
Could anyone help with what should be a simple task? I have data as a
fixed format (fortran) table. I have no trouble getting it into R using
read.table. Each column is separated by a space, including the first
column that begins with a space, and aligned. It reads into R as if
separated by tabs. However I want to manipulate two columns of data then
write the results out into exactly the same fortran format for use in
another program. It should be simple, but I've tried a variety of
experiments with print, cat and format, none of which have come close.
Here is a sample of the data.
1 1 1 19.5 2.42 0.02 5.81 9.7 0.4 102. 4.8 320. 4.8
2 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.7 -4.0 178. 5.4 301. 0.2
3 1 1 8.2 1.64 0.08 6.93 6.9 -3.6 275. 2.7 84. -11.1
4 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.6 -4.8 221. 5.6 327. -10.4
5 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 11.6 8.2 168. 4.3 269. 6.8
6 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.7 16.9 155. 5.6 287. 8.2
7 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.0 2.1 195. 2.7 22. 0.1
8 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.6 6.5 281. 2.0 146. 1.5
9 1 1 41.2 1.54 0.82 6.96 12.2 7.8 268. 5.5 356. 4.5
10 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 14.6 -1.4 250. 3.6 344. 6.4
11 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 14.5 -3.7 300. 0.0 0. -16.9
12 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.8 -2.6 308. 0.0 0. 2.9
13 1 1 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.4 1.6 226. 3.3 335. 3.8
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Dr Duncan Golicher
Ecologia y Sistematica Terrestre
Conservaci??n de la Biodiversidad
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
San Cristobal de Las Casas,
Chiapas, Mexico
Email: dgoliche at sclc.ecosur.mx