writing data into files whose names are in a vector

GuRus

How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to
achieve
the following please?

age=c(32,37,39)
names=c("john","peter","jake")

I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as
john.csv,peter.csv
and jake.csv and each file have data from the age vector. That is
jon.csv
will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and jake.csv will contain
39.

Thanks for the help.

Raghu

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In the same context I tried the following but with no results.

mywrite=function(a,b){
write.csv(a,paste(b,".csv")
}
lapply(age,mywrite(age,names))

which produced:
Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) :
 argument 1 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat'

Thanks once again.
Raghu

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Raghuraman Ramachandran <
optionsraghu at gmail.com> wrote:

GuRus

How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to

achieve

the following please?

age=c(32,37,39)
names=c("john","peter","jake")

I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as
john.csv,peter.csv and jake.csv and each file have data from the age
vector. That is jon.csv will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37

and

jake.csv will contain 39.

Thanks for the help.

Raghu

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Thx Jeff. I could use a loop no doubt but I thought that will reduce
the
speed and I was thinking there could be a vectorisation idea. I will
try
your way. Cheers.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote:

You have to wrap the write calls in some kind of loop. For your

example,

you could use a for loop. If you have multiple rows of one name you

might

look into the dlply function from the plyr package and use lapply to

do the

actual write calls.

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Raghuraman Ramachandran <optionsraghu at gmail.com> wrote:

GuRus

How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to
achieve
the following please?

age=c(32,37,39)
names=c("john","peter","jake")

I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as
john.csv,peter.csv
and jake.csv and each file have data from the age vector. That is
jon.csv
will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and jake.csv will contain
39.

Thanks for the help.

Raghu

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