On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Full_Name: Kingsley Oteng-Amoako >> Version: 2.5.1 >> OS: Windows 5.1.2600 (Windows XP) >> Submission from: (NULL) (203.185.215.144) >> >> >> The col.names=false in the write.csv command does not work as documented. >> Attempting to write a vector to a csv file without column headers does not >> work >> as documented. >> >> The col.names=false feature on the write.table command does however work and >> it >> can thus be coerced into behaving like the write.csv command - which suggests >> that there is a simple error with the write.csv command code. >> > No, this is exacly as documented: > > > 'write.csv' and 'write.csv2' provide convenience wrappers for > writing CSV files. They set 'sep', 'dec' and 'qmethod', and > 'col.names' to 'NA' if 'row.names = TRUE' and 'TRUE' otherwise. > ..... > These wrappers are deliberately inflexible: they are designed to > ensure that the correct conventions are used to write a valid > file. Attempts to change 'col.names', 'sep', 'dec' or 'qmethod' > are ignored, with a warning. > > (I forget whether the warning bit is new in 2.6.x, though)
It is unchanged since June 2005, and appeared in this form in R 2.2.0. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
