Sorry, I was assuming your data was a matrix (as you indicated in your question).
Try: write.table(as.matrix(PRdist), file = 'clipboard', sep = '\t', row.names = F, col.names = F) -Dan On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Michael <elopomo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I got an error message. > > > > write.table(PRdist, file = 'clipboard', sep = '\t', row.names = F, > col.names = F) > Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE) : > cannot coerce class ""dist"" to a data.frame > > I think because my PRdist is a value, not a data frame. However, I am not > sure. Any advice? > > > Thanks for your help. > > > Mike > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalth...@usgs.gov> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 2, 2016 3:50 PM > *To:* Michael > *Cc:* r-help@r-project.org > *Subject:* Re: [R] output my results into Excel > > 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 > > -- 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.