You need to add row.names=FALSE to your write.table() statement. This and other useful options are documented in the help. And you'll notice that that first column of row names appears in your R output as well.
Sarah On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Paolo Rossi <statmailingli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I have a dataframe object having the following structure > > FinalOutput[1:3,] > GasDays 2011-03-31 2010-09-30 2010-10-31 2010-11-30 2010-12-31 > 2011-01-31 2011-02-28 > 1 2006-10-01 217303553 221205033 222824639 217016511 216093460 > 216477468 216834021 > 2 2006-10-02 231158527 234565250 236004109 231467851 230100639 > 230079907 230734064 > 3 2006-10-03 282062314 285427832 286372163 282532055 280930498 > 281155966 281124614 > After using > write.table(FinalOutput, paste("ModelComparison.csv", sep = ''), sep = ',') > > the out put I get on the csv is > > > > GasDays 31/03/2011 30/09/2010 31/10/2010 30/11/2010 > 31/12/2010 31/01/2011 28/02/2011 31/03/2011 > 1 01/10/2006 217303553.3 221205032.6 > 222824638.7 217016510.8 > 216093460 216477467.9 216834021 217303553.3 > 2 02/10/2006 231158527.1 234565249.7 > 236004108.7 231467850.7 230100639.1 230079907.4 > 230734064.4 231158527.1 > 3 03/10/2006 282062314.5 285427831.6 > 286372163 282532055.2 280930497.7 > 281155966 281124613.8 282062314.5 > > > so essentially one column full of 1,2,3, ... is added to the file when > saving it. > > Can someone pelase help me to get rid of it? > > Thanks > > Paolo > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.