write.table               package:base               R Documentation

_D_a_t_a _O_u_t_p_u_t

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     `write.table' prints its required argument `x' (after converting
     it to a data frame if it is not one already) to `file'.  The
     entries in each line (row) are separated by the value of `sep'.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     write.table(x, file = "", append = FALSE, quote = TRUE, sep = " ",
                 eol = "\n", na = NA, row.names = TRUE, col.names = TRUE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       x: the object to be written, typically a data frame.  If not, it
          is attempted to create one from it.

    file: the name of the file which the data are to be written to.

     sep: the field separator string.  Values on each line of the file
          are separated by this string.

col.names: a logical value indicating whether the column names of `x'
          are to be written along with `x', or a character vector of
          column names to be written.

row.names: a logical value indicating whether the row names of `x' are
          to be written along with `x', or a character vector of row
          names to be written.

   quote: a logical or a numeric vector.  If `TRUE', any strings in the
          data will be surrounded by double quotes.  If a numeric
          vector, its elements are taken as the indices of the variable
          (columns) to quote.  In both cases, row and columns names are
          always quoted if they are written.

      na: the string to use for missing values in the data.

     eol: the character(s) to print at the end of each line (row).

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Normally there is no column name for a column of row names If
     `col.names=NA' a blank column name is added. This can be used to
     write CSV files for input to spreadsheets.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     `read.table'.

