I think that setting the ascii argument in the save command to TRUE might give a human readable file.
If it'll work for what you want to do later, I don't know HTH Ulrik On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 at 14:13 Ferri Leberl <ferri.leb...@gmx.at> wrote: > > > Thanks for your answer. > > I'm afraid it doesn't. > > The planned workflow should be: > > Somebody delivers me a table containing the essential relations of an > XML-schema in form of a list that should, once it is functional, be > generated out of R. So I need a form that is as universal as possible — > therefore I thought of a tabular separated list. > If I make an array: > > feld<-array(1:60,dim=c(4,3,5)) > > save it > > save(file="feld",list="feld") > > and read it in the bash > > cat feld > > I receive > > U�G�@ > @Q��z���,9� > > !��w�?,��3c[�/g�2mSD4ѡ鄆��C��r�>�#�'�]劸���?P5�a��(b�#�$RH#�,rȣ�"J(��*j���&Zh��.z�c�!F▒c�)f�c > K���[����ϼ�Н��;�o|�����Y��N > > So I guess it will be a science of its own to understand, how the file is > structured. > > So I need either a format that allows to easily parse the import 3D-Matrix > outside R, or I need any good idea how to avoid the third dimension (e.g., > might it function to use a second separation character within the collumns > which may contain several items? > > Thank you in advance! > Have a pleasant weekend. > Yours, Ferri > > > > > > Gesendet: Freitag, 11. November 2016 um 12:02 Uhr > Von: "Rui Barradas" <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> > An: "Ferri Leberl" <ferri.leb...@gmx.at>, "r-helpr-project.org" < > r-help@r-project.org> > Betreff: Re: [R] Importing and exporting threedimensional arrays > Hello, > > You can save 3D objects (or objects of any form or shape) by using ?save. > You would then retrieve them with ?load. > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > Em 11-11-2016 09:36, Ferri Leberl escreveu: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I want to process a list of XML-Elements. > > In one dimension the elements are listed; in the other their respective > properties (name, comment, parent, children, attributes). > > > > I am writing a script that processes such tables, and another one that > produces sample tables to test the first script. > > So the first script should import tabular-separated lists, and the > second should export them with write.table (or anything better you suggest > me). > > > > As long as we stay two dimensional I see no difficulties. > > > > However, there can be several children and several attributes. So my > idea was to add a third dimension — but some tests I did showed me that e.g. > > > > > write.table(array(1:60,dim=c(4,3,5)),"beispielmatrix",sep="\t",quote=FALSE,row.names=F,col.names=F,dec=",") > > > > produces a 2D-tsv. > > > > So, how can I handle the fact, that there may be several items in a > children resp. atrribute field? > > > > Thank you in advance! > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html[http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html] > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
