The help page says
By default there is no column name for a column of row names. If
'col.names = NA' and 'row.names = TRUE' a blank column name is
added. This can be used to write CSV files for input to
spreadsheets. 'write.csv' and 'write.csv2' provide convenience
wrappers for doing so.
and they are set up to disallow the options they set to be changed.
If you get the option wrong to read a file, you will know soon enough, but
these are to ensure a suitable CSV file gets written (which will not be so
immediately apparent).
Please define `optimal': doing what it was designed for and is documented
to do is according to you not `optimal'.
Why would anyone want to use write.csv to write files with something other
than a comma/semicolon as separator, rather than use write.table?
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote:
> Hello all,
> I had some trouble recently with write.csv because I couldn't change one
> of the default options. A quick view of the code showed that the
> function was not defined in the most optimal way.
>
> Currently,
> write.csv <- function (..., col.names = NA, sep = ",", qmethod =
> "double")
> write.table(..., col.names = NA, sep = ",", qmethod = "double")
>
> Thus, the options passed along to write.csv are ignored by the function
> (unless in the ...).
>
> Perhaps a better way to define the function is as such (similar to
> read.csv):
>
> write.csv <- function (..., col.names = NA, sep = ",", qmethod =
> "double")
> write.table(..., col.names = col.names, sep = sep, qmethod =
> qmethod)
>
> The same also applies to write.csv2
>
> Best,
> Robert
>
>
>> version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status
> major 2
> minor 1.1
> year 2005
> month 06
> day 20
> language R
>
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