Okay, upon further examination, it appears that it works fine if you set 'row.names = FALSE' as opposed to 'row.names = F'.
-roger Roger Peng wrote: > Upon replying to this email, I took a look at 'write.csv()' and noticed > something interesting. I remember there being a discussion sometime in > the past about letting 'write.csv()' accept the 'row.names' argument. > However, I get the following error: > > > write.csv(airquality, file = "myfile.csv", row.names = F) > Error in write.table(airquality, file = "myfile.csv", row.names = F, > col.names = NA, : > col.names = NA makes no sense when row.names = FALSE > > > > In 'write.csv()' there is > > rn <- Call$row.names > Call$col.names <- if (is.logical(rn) && !rn) > TRUE > > but is.logical(rn) is always FALSE because even if 'row.names' is > specified (non-NULL), it is of class "name". Perhaps something like > > rn <- eval(Call$row.names) > > would suffice? I can't tell if that would break anything. > > -roger > > Sven Schaltenbrand wrote: > >> hallo, >> >> i have a problem by writing a csv file >> the first colum is filled with index numbers from 1 to n. >> i have to unique two csv files once a week while one file is always the >> same. >> can anybody tell me, how to write the dataset into a csv file without the >> first row of the indexnumbers. >> x[,-1] does not wok as it eliminates the first "interesting" colum. >> col.names is not accepted by r (do i habe to start a package first? which >> one?) >> >> thx >> >> sven >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
