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Not getting all data to a text file via write.table

3 messages · rwatkins@cornerstonelp.com, Spencer Graves, Peter Dalgaard

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Hi all- Thanks in advance for your help.

	I have a 2275x1 table of residuals from an lm() regression.  I want to
analyze this further in Excel.  I tried using:

	df<-resid(object)
	write.table(df)

and this yields a nice looking output in R, but because of screen
constraints, I seem to loose data "out-the-top" of the Console -- which
doesn't bother me, as long as I can see it eventually.  But when i clicked
on the RGui tool bar File|Save to file|, etc., only what I could see in the
Console seemed to be saved to the text file.

	Obviiously, I am a newbie -- How can I get the entire output into this
textfile?

	Again, thanks!  Enjoy the Holiday weekend!
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?write.table reveals a second argument "file".  Have you considered 
"write.table(df, 'df.csv')"?  I've imported *.csv files produced by 
"write.table" into Excel many times, so I think this should work for you.

	  By the way, "df" is the density function for the F distribution.  It 
is also the degrees of freedom argument for Student's t distribution 
functions, etc.  It is therefore considered poor style to use "df" as 
the name of a data.frame or some other object.

hth.  spencer graves
rwatkins at cornerstonelp.com wrote:
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<rwatkins at cornerstonelp.com> writes:
There's a file= argument to write.table. 

That's the right way to do it, but you can increase the amount saved
in the console too, on the GUI Preferences menu I think.