try: write.table(x, file="/Users/Desktop/Data.txt", row.names= FALSE, col.names= FALSE, sep="", append=TRUE)
this should do it. If you don't want to append, just turn that opion off. Stropharia wrote: > > Dear R users, > > I've had no joy finding a solution to this online or in any of my R books. > Many thanks in advance for any help you can give. > > I'm seeking to output a data frame (or matrix - it doesn't matter which > for my purposes) to a .txt file, but omit any row or column names. The > data frame that I'm using doesn't actually have column or row names to > start with as it has been coerced into its present form from a matrix. > When I use: > > capture.output(x, file="/Users/Desktop/Data.txt", append=TRUE) > > I get the following (this is a small fraction of the actual data frame): > > 1 2 3 4 5 > X1 0 0 0 0 2 > X2 0 0 0 2 0 > X3 1 1 2 0 0 > > If the data frame is transformed into a matrix, I still get row and column > 'names' (or at least numbers like "v1," etc.). Using the "sink" function > also produces the exact same result. I've tried using "row.names=FALSE" > (as you would when writing to a .csv file), in the "capture.output" > function, but it doesn't work. > > I would also like the remove the horizontal spaces between numbers on the > same row, to produce: > > 00002 > 00020 > 11200 > > But, I want each row to remain a separate entity (not be concatenated with > the others). I know I can remove the blank spaces by doing Find and > Replace in a text editor, but is it possible to remove the row and column > names, and the row spaces, directly in R so that it outputs like the above > example? > > Thanks, > > Steve > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Steven Worthington > Ph.D. Candidate > New York Consortium in > Evolutionary Primatology & > Department of Anthropology > New York University > 25 Waverly Place > New York, NY 10003 > U.S.A. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Excluding-removing-row-and-column-names-on-text-output-files-tp17030424p17030476.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.
