The situation arises where I open a file to write a data.frame to it. with
write.table.
multiple lines are written to the file and the file is kept in Append=TRUE
mode.
If one sets the col.names to the names of the variables being written, you
have output
that looks like this...
name1 name2 name3.....
x x x
x x x
x x x
name1 name2 name 3
x x x
x x x
x x x
And so forth as each time write is called, the col.names are written.
Setting col.names=NULL obviously removes them.
I thought a simple solution would be to check for the file existence first
and on the first write, include the col.names. with append=T.
on subsequent writes, col.names would be set to NULL.
that didnt work and threw warnings.
Is there anyway to do this. basically open a file for writing, with
append=TRUE and only write the col.names once
at the first write. or am I stuck and forced to write the whole file without
the col.names and then read back in and rewrite
with col.names="the cols names I want"
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