Dear Chris, many thanks! This is just what I had in mind! (namely the 'sapply' solution).
Thank you and best regards! Zdenek -----Original Message----- From: Chris Campbell [mailto:ccampb...@mango-solutions.com] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 4:11 PM To: Skála, Zdeněk (INCOMA GfK) Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Consultants Subject: RE: write list to ascii Dear Zdenek You could generate this file using a loop. # the data abc <- list(one=(1:2), two=(1:5)) # create a connection sink("aa.txt", append=T, split=T) # for each element in the list, print for (list_name in names(abc)) { cat(list_name, unlist(abc[list_name]),"\n") } # close connection sink() # here is another way that might be useful # unlist the data aa <- sapply(abc, paste, collapse = " ") # generate the strings you need bb <- paste("$", names(abc), " ", aa, sep = "") # write out data write.table(bb, "aa.txt", col.names = FALSE, row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE) # hope this helps Best wishes Chris Chris Campbell Mango Solutions Data Analysis the Delivers http://www.mango-solutions.com +44 (0) 1249 705 450 -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Skála, Zdenek (INCOMA GfK) Sent: 19 July 2012 10:10 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] write list to ascii Dear all, apologies for this (perhaps recurrent) question but I did not found a question when searching mailing lists. How to write a list of a simple kind, e.g.: abc <- list(one=(1:2), two=(1:5)) # to a file? I understand that write() & co. cannot work but when I try sink("aa.txt", append=T, split=T) abc sink() # the output is indeed "split by rows" in the textfile, each starting with row numbers (and I have rather long "vectors" resulting in many rows...): $one [1] 1 2 $two [1] 1 2 3 4 5 What I would need is a simple "set of vectors" starting with name in the style of: $one 1 2 $two 1 2 3 4 5 Is it possible in R? Many thanks! Zdenek Skala [[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. -- LEGAL NOTICE\ \ This message is intended for the use of ...{{dropped:13}} ______________________________________________ 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.
