Dear Philipp and Duncan, I've tried
> write(as.character(myvec), "output.txt", sep="\n") and > writeLines(as.character(myvec), "output.txt", sep="\n") Both yielding same result. >> 1 >> 1 >> 1 >> 1 >> 1 >> 6241 Is there any other possible explanation, why it still went wrong? - Gundala Viswanath Jakarta - Indonesia On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Philipp Pagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to print this vector into a file >> >> > myvec >> [1] --Control --Control --Control --Control --Control HBA2 HBA1 >> [8] HBA1 --Control HBB --Control HBB HBA1 MBP > [...] >> >> However using this command: >> write(myvec, "output.txt", sep="\n") >> >> I get this instead in my output.txt: >> >> 1 >> 1 >> 1 >> 1 >> 1 >> 6241 >> 6240 >> 6240 >> 1 >> 6242 >> 1 >> 6242 >> 6240 >> .... >> >> What's wrong with my command above? > > I think your vector is a factor and what ends up in your file is the > internal representation of the factor. Try this instead: > > write(as.character(myvec), "output.txt", sep="\n") > > cu > Philipp > > > -- > Dr. Philipp Pagel > Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik > Technische Universität München > Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan > 85350 Freising, Germany > http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
