Hi Everyone, Thanks for all the help with the previous queries.
Here is what i want to do. i have 20000 probesets-->calculate all the variance accross all the probesets-->filter out probesets that are low so now i ended up with only 10000. The 10000 is fine but when i export to excel, it is missing the probeID. Here are my code and examples. #########calculate the variance across the probesets and plot signals######### library(xlsReadWrite) x<-1:20000 y<-2:141 data.matrix<-data.matrix(data[,y])#create data.matrix variableprobe<-apply(data.matrix[x,],1,var) variableprobe #output variance across probesets hist(variableprobe) #displaying histogram of variableprobe write.xls(cbind(data[1], Variance=apply(data[,y],1,var)),file='c://variance.csv') #export as a .csv file. Output: ProbeID Variance 224588_at 21.58257457 ############################################################################## #############filter out low variance and Select 10,000 probesets############## data.sub = data.matrix[order(variableprobe,decreasing=TRUE),][1:10000,] dim(data.sub) write.table(data.sub, file = "c://data_output.csv", sep = ",", col.names = NA) Output: Sample_1_D Sample_1_C Sample_2_D Sample_2_C 1 2.425509867 11.34031409 11.46868531 11.75741478 what i need is this ProbeID Sample_1_D Sample_1_C Sample_2_D Sample_2_C 1 224588_at 2.425509867 11.34031409 11.46868531 11.75741478 This is just the short version but there are 10000 rows and 140 columns. thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Export-csv-data-tp15822903p15822903.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.