Here is my little scriptlet: optdata = read.csv("K:\\MerchantData\\RiskModel\\AutomatedRiskModel\\soptions.dat", header = FALSE, na.strings="") attach(optdata) library(MASS) setwd("K:\\MerchantData\\RiskModel\\AutomatedRiskModel") for (i in 1:length(V4) ) { x = read.csv(as.character(V4[[i]]), header = FALSE, na.strings=""); y = x[,1]; fp = fitdistr(y,"exponential"); print(c(V1[[i]],V2[[i]],V3[[i]],fp$estimate,fp$sd)) }
And here are the first few lines of output: rate rate 2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 1.800000e+01 6.869301e-02 6.462095e-03 rate rate 2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 1.900000e+01 5.958023e-02 4.491029e-03 rate rate 2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.000000e+01 8.631714e-02 7.428996e-03 rate rate 2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.200000e+01 1.261538e-01 1.137491e-02 rate rate 2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.300000e+01 1.339523e-01 1.332875e-02 rate rate 2.510000e+02 2.008000e+03 2.400000e+01 8.916084e-02 1.248501e-02 There are only two things wrong, here. 1) the first three columns are integers, and are output variously as integers, floating point numbers and, as shown here, in scientific notation. 2) this output isn't going to a file or to my DB. This second issue isn't much of a problem, as I think I know now how to deal with it. This output data is, in one sense, perfectly organized, and there is a table with a nearly identical structure (these five columns, plus one to hold the date on which the analysis is performed (and of course, therefore, it has a default value of the current timestamp - handled in MySQL). If I can get the data written to a CSV file, with the first three columns provided as integers, I can use the DB's bulk load utility to get the data into the DB, and this may be faster than having this scriptlet connecting directly to the DB to insert the data (unless the DBI has a function for a bulk load that helps here). Any idea how best to handle my formatting problem here? Thanks Ted -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Two-last-questions%3A-about-output-tp20005519p20005519.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.