-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13/04/11 15:15, jim holtman wrote: > Here is an outline of how to do it using connections: > > con <- file('/temp/mytemp.txt', 'w') > writeLines(c("#comment", "# lines", "# in the file"), con = con) > # create some data to be output as 'tab' separated > myData <- as.data.frame(matrix(letters[1:25], 5)) > write.table(myData, file = con, sep = '\t') > close(con) > con <- file('/temp/mytemp.txt', 'w') > writeLines(c("#comment", "# lines", "# in the file"), con = con) > # create some data to be output as 'tab' separated > myData <- as.data.frame(matrix(letters[1:25], 5)) > write.table(myData, file = con, sep = '\t') > close(con)
or: myData <- as.data.frame(matrix(letters[1:25], 5)) writeLines(c("#comment", "# lines", "# in the file"), con = "./test.csv") write.table(myData, "./test.csv", append=TRUE) Cheers, Rainer > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mao Jianfeng <jianfeng....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I have data.frame object in R. I want to export it in tab-delimited >> file with several lines of header initiated with comment sign (#). I >> do not know how to do that in R. Could you please give helps on this >> problem? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Best, >> Jian-Feng, >> >> ################################################################## >> The lines I want to write in the header lines look like, with words in >> the last line (here the line "#CHROM POS ID REF ALT QUAL >> FILTER INFO FORMAT NA00001") be >> separated by tab : >> >> >> ##fileformat=VCFv4.1 >> ##fileDate=20090805 >> ##source=myImputationProgramV3.1 >> ##reference=file:///seq/references/1000GenomesPilot-NCBI36.fasta >> ##contig=<ID=20,length=62435964,assembly=B36,md5=f126cdf8a6e0c7f379d618ff66beb2da,species="Homo >> sapiens",taxonomy=x> >> ##phasing=partial >> ##INFO=<ID=NS,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Number of Samples With >> Data"> >> ##INFO=<ID=DP,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Total Depth"> >> ##INFO=<ID=AF,Number=A,Type=Float,Description="Allele Frequency"> >> ##INFO=<ID=AA,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Ancestral Allele"> >> ##INFO=<ID=DB,Number=0,Type=Flag,Description="dbSNP membership, build 129"> >> ##INFO=<ID=H2,Number=0,Type=Flag,Description="HapMap2 membership"> >> ##FILTER=<ID=q10,Description="Quality below 10"> >> ##FILTER=<ID=s50,Description="Less than 50% of samples have data"> >> ##FORMAT=<ID=GT,Number=1,Type=String,Description="Genotype"> >> ##FORMAT=<ID=GQ,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Genotype Quality"> >> ##FORMAT=<ID=DP,Number=1,Type=Integer,Description="Read Depth"> >> ##FORMAT=<ID=HQ,Number=2,Type=Integer,Description="Haplotype Quality"> >> #CHROM POS ID REF ALT QUAL FILTER INFO >> FORMAT NA00001 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2lo98ACgkQoYgNqgF2egovxwCeN7G2It+1petLynKW37fIqKbW YIkAmwfMSgfLLZwTGDHJ2dNsVp5muj+7 =Cfj2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ 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.