Hi Mark, You need a character vector or a data.frame for separate rows. Something like:
longtext <- 'akdf kadfö \nkad flkdöflkadfk dafk \nlakdf kdjfkjdfkjadfk\njadfkjdflk adf' (rowtext <- as.data.frame( strsplit( longtext, split = "\n" )) ) may do this. Regards, Hans-Peter PS: Probably not so appropriate for the R-devel list either... 2007/2/9, Mark W Kimpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As part of my project to put different types of results into worksheets, > I would like to be able to put an auto-generated methods section. If I > compose in RWinEdt, read into R, and use write.table with a .txt file > extension, what I get out has line-breaks that correspond to those I put > in in the first place. > > If I do the same thing but write.xls with .xls extention, I get an Excel > worksheet with the entire paragraph on one line (row). It seems to me > that Excel uses a special character for new-lines (new-rows). Is there a > way that write.xls could convert \n to this special character? > > I'm writing lots of posts on this, but trying to break up the subjects > to create better threads. > > Mark > > -- > Mark W. Kimpel MD > Neuroinformatics > Department of Psychiatry > Indiana University School of Medicine > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
