I/O is not greatly improved by vectorization, except that whole files being read or written as units is faster than looping over rows. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Raghuraman Ramachandran <optionsra...@gmail.com> wrote: >Thx Jeff. I could use a loop no doubt but I thought that will reduce >the >speed and I was thinking there could be a vectorisation idea. I will >try >your way. Cheers. > >On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote: > >> You have to wrap the write calls in some kind of loop. For your >example, >> you could use a for loop. If you have multiple rows of one name you >might >> look into the dlply function from the plyr package and use lapply to >do the >> actual write calls. >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go >Live... >> DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live >> Go... >> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. >Playing >> Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with >> /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. >rocks...1k >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> Raghuraman Ramachandran <optionsra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >GuRus >> > >> >How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to >> >achieve >> >the following please? >> > >> >age=c(32,37,39) >> >names=c("john","peter","jake") >> > >> >I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as >> >john.csv,peter.csv >> >and jake.csv and each file have data from the age vector. That is >> >jon.csv >> >will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and jake.csv will contain >> >39. >> > >> >Thanks for the help. >> > >> >Raghu >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> >______________________________________________ >> >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. >> >> ______________________________________________ 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.