Thanks Brendan. write.table() doesn't seem to do it for me. The problem is that my data is not formatted as well as you show in the example. There are numbers and strings of varying sizes and write.table() misses the format.
Aparna -----Original Message----- From: Brendan Morse [mailto:morse.bren...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:35 PM To: Vemuri, Aparna Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Controlling widths in write.fwf() Hi Aparna, you could always use the write.table function and set sep="". This will put all of your data into a sort of "fixed-width" column depending on what you specify to separate the values. See basic example below: x<-matrix(nrow=2, ncol=2, c(1,2,3,4)) write.table(x, "/Users/morse07/Desktop/x.txt", sep="", col.names=FALSE, row.names=FALSE) Note that any spaces you insert between the "" after the sep command will insert 1 fixed-width column per space in your file. Hope that helps, Brendan On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Vemuri, Aparna wrote: > Is there a way to handle the widths of values being written to a file > using wrtite.fwf() ? > > For example, I used read.fwf(file, width.vector) to read a file. After > making the necessary data manipulation, I want to write the data to a > new file in the same width.vector format. Is there a way to specify > this? > > Thanks in Advance > Aparna > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
