You can get all the rownames by calling write.table once on something like # if all list elements have equal length t(data.frame(MyList)) # otherwise, let NA extend where needed t(do.call(cbind, lapply(MyList, ts)))
You can take care of NAs as needed on your end. HTH -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rajasekaramya Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:52 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Writing a list help hi there, I have a list called MyList. MyList[[1]] [1] "SRY" [2] "RPS4Y1" [3] "ZFY" [4] "ZFX /// ZFY" [5] "LOC728137" [6] "LOC100101116 /// TTTY1" [7] "AMELY" [8] "TBL1Y" [9] "PRKY" [[2]] . . . [[24]] I have list.I wanna write it to file. for(i in 1:24) { write.table(as.vector(as.matrix(MyLIST[[i]] file="geneset.txt",sep="\t",append=T) } I used a for loop to write my list.It worked but i have two concerns with it. First while writing in a txt file it writing in the names verticaly as it appears above but i want it to in row it should look like SRY" RPS4Y1" ZFY" ZFX /// ZFY" AMELY" TBL1Y" PRKY" second is i want the list name as my row name. I tried some thing like row.names=names(mylist[[i]]) but it didnit work. kindly let me know ur suggestions as how to go about it. Regards Ramya -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Writing-a-list-help-tp20837411p20837411.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. ______________________________________________ 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.
