On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, jim holtman wrote: > ?capture.output > > myoutput <- capture.output(write.csv(...))
It would be better to write directly to a text connection: see the 'file' argument to write.csv. > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Tristan Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am relatively new to R and learning its ins and outs. As part of a website >> I am building, I need to read and write csv files directly from an SQL >> database. Basically I want to convert R variables (dataframes) into CSV >> format, store them as another R variable (as a properly formatted text >> string suitable for csv reading) and then send this to one row in a database. >> >> The SQL part is fine, the problem arises because I cannot capture the output >> of write.csv! It posts to the terminal when file="" is used, however I also >> want to store it. Does anyone have any ideas? >> >> Thanks in advance! -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
