Perhaps ?dput -- Bert
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Lietz, Haiko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to collapse multiple elements of a vector into a single > comma-separated character element. I only know how to create a list of the > original elements, but I have not managed to write this into a text file, > which is necessary. > > To illustrate, let's use the airquality dataset and extract the Month and > Day columns: > > library(datasets) > x <- data.frame(Month = airquality$Month, Day = > as.character(airquality$Day)) > > Using the aggregate function > > y <- aggregate(x$Day ~ x$Month, data = x, paste) > > only seemingly creates what I want because the list can't be written to a > file. > > "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, > 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31" for the first row should > actually be a character element. > > I've tried it but sapply, ascii, write.matrix don't seem get me there. > > Can someone please point me towards the function I need? > > Best wishes > > Haiko > > > Haiko Lietz > GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences > Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, D-50667 Köln > Tel: + 49 (0) 221 / 476 94 -223 > eMail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Web: http://www.gesis.org > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > > -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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