"Sudhindra Gadagkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Hi, I can't believe I am unable to do this. I just installed R > (never used it before, but want to learn it). At present, though. > all I want to do is export a data file (specifically "crabs" in the > MASS library) to a text file for use in SPSS. It allows me to peek > into the dataset, using the command head(crabs) but I can neither > view the entire file nor can I seem to export it to a text file. I > have been trying to get help from the online help for several hours > now! Maybe I just don't know what to search for. Frustrating! Help > would be much appreciated. Thx, S. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] write.table should provide the basic function. It is designed to write datafames: write.table(crabs, file="crab.out.csv", sep=",") ... will give you a comma separated file: ... first five lines "sp","sex","index","FL","RW","CL","CW","BD" "1","B","M",1,8.1,6.7,16.1,19,7 "2","B","M",2,8.8,7.7,18.1,20.8,7.4 "3","B","M",3,9.2,7.8,19,22.4,7.7 "4","B","M",4,9.6,7.9,20.1,23.1,8.2 . . . If you are working in Windows, and want to specify a directory, you need to use forward slashes in the full filename. The backslash character has special meaning in *NIX systems, which is where R was developed. If you want to "see" the dataframe, crabs, just type the name. You should see 200 lines of data. -- David Winsemius ______________________________________________ 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.
