Hello, ifelse is a vectorized version of if/else, you want the normal if/else.
if(file.exists(... etc ...) [...] else [...] Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Citando Antonio Silva <aolinto....@gmail.com>: > Dear R users > > I want to write a file that contains several data frames generated in a > loop > ing. > I also want the column names be written to file only when it is created in > first loop. > > In the example below, when I run each line separately without "for (i in > ...) { }" it works, but when I run the looping I get an error message > > X<-c("A","B","C","D","E") > Y<-c(0,1,2,3,4) > > for (i in 0:3) { > Y<-Y+i > data<-data.frame(X,Y) > ifelse(file.exists("test.csv"), > write.table(data,"test.csv",row.names = > FALSE,col.names=FALSE,sep=";",append=TRUE), > write.table(data,"test.csv",row.names = FALSE,sep=";") > )} > > Error in ifelse(file.exists("test.csv"), write.table(data, "test.csv", : > substituto tem comprimento zero > Além disso: Warning message: > In rep(yes, length.out = length(ans)) : > 'x' is NULL so the result will be NULL > > What is going wrong here? Thanks for any comments or suggestions. > > All the best. > > Antonio Olinto > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.htmland provide commented, > minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.