that works! Thanks a lot!!!!!!! On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:29 PM, stephen sefick <ssef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> file <- foo.data > > filename <- paste("plant", x, sep="") > out <- paste("C:/", "plant/", filename, ".csv",sep="") > > write.csv(file, out) > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Tucson August <tucsonaug...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > How to convert a character to a filename? > > such as: > > > > x <- "height" # "height" here is actually a name of a colume in a data > > frame > > filename <- paste("plant,x") > > write.csv (data, file="C:/plant/filename.csv) # having trouble with this > > statement, how to 'write' the filename here? > > > > All I want from above is to write 'data' to a file named plantheight.csv > > > > (the ultimate goal is to use a loop to transfer each column of a data > frame > > into a separated file named from that column > > e.g. to create many files with different names but the names are all > like: > > plantheight.csv, plantweight.csv, and height, weight.., are column names > of > > a data frame) > > > > Thank you! > > > > Tuc Aug. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > Stephen Sefick > ____________________________________ > | Auburn University | > | Department of Biological Sciences | > | 331 Funchess Hall | > | Auburn, Alabama | > | 36849 | > |___________________________________| > | sas0...@auburn.edu | > | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | > |___________________________________| > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > "A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal > science." > > -Robert Gentleman > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.