Hi Michael, If you are working in Windows: # You can put the matrix directly into the clipboard write.table(PRdist, file = 'clipboard', sep = '\t', row.names = F, col.names = F)
The "sep" argument tells what character to use for separating columns. Default for Excel is tab (i.e. '\t') Default for write.table on a matrix or 2-d array is to write column names (as "V1", "V2", etc.) and row names ("1", "2", etc.). If you don't want those added to your matrix, tell R via row.names = FALSE, col.names = FALSE -Dan On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Michael <elopomo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I can get R to calculate the distance that I want between my data points. > However, I am stuck trying to get R to output the data so I can paste it > into Excel. Instead, R outputs a matrix mess in the console. > > Below are the steps I am taking to calculate the distance between my > data. Also, I have 42 different data points. > > # Calculate the Euclidean distance between each datapoint using > # the function dist() > > PRdist = dist(my_data) ; PRdist > > I would greatly appreciate if someone can tell me how to output my matrix > from the dist function into something I can paste into Excel. > > Mike > > > > > [[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. > -- Dan Dalthorp, PhD USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis, OR 97331 ph: 541-750-0953 ddalth...@usgs.gov [[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.