It would be quicker, and easier, to use save/load to keep your temporary output. Therefore you would not have to be concerned with a structure that would be compatible to write.table/read.table.
2010/4/26 Laetitia Schmid <laeti...@gmt.su.se> > Hi, > I've had a little problem for several weeks now. It is annoying and > therefore I will ask for help: > When I write a script with several iterations, I make it write out a > text file to save the data during the run. For example I write: > if (i %% 25) write.table(output,"temporary_output.txt") > Later on, when I read in this output and want to calculate things, R > complains that x is not numeric. > I read it in with the following command: > dat1<-read.table("temporary_output.txt",header=TRUE). > It seems that R is saving my temporary output as a list. > What is wrong here? And how can I do it better? > > This time I attached the temporary_output.txt: > > > > > > Thanks. > Laetitia > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.