>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:33:02 -0700 (PDT) writes:
Douglas> Hi,
Douglas> It would be great if someone would add write.delim() as an
Douglas> adjunct to write.table(), just as with write.csv().
Douglas> I store a lot of data in tab-delimited files and can read
Douglas> it in easily with: read.delim("text.txt", as.is=TRUE)
Douglas> and would love to be able to write it out as easily when
Douglas> I create these files.
Douglas> The obvious setting needed for write.delim() is sep = "\t",
Douglas> but in addition I would request the setting row.names = FALSE
Douglas> i.e.
Douglas> write.delim(x, file) = write.table(x, file, sep = "\t",
row.names=FALSE)
i.e.,
write.delim <- function(x, file, ...)
write.table(x, file, sep = "\t", row.names=FALSE, ...)
So, why don't you just add that one line to your .Rprofile ?
In general, I don't think that it's worth to introduce a whole
new function just because of some frequent argument use of an
already existing function {{and I have wondered if it was worth
to provide write.csv() at all - although, there the difference to default
write.table() is quite a bit larger}}
Martin
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