Re: [R] Align columns in data frame write.table

2012-08-10 Thread arun
HI, Not sure how you want to align the columns. If you want to write the columns in fixed width format, you can use, write.fwf() from library(gdata). A.K. - Original Message - From: sharx To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 9:39 PM Subject: [R] Align columns i

Re: [R] Align columns in data frame write.table

2012-08-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 10, 2012, at 6:39 PM, sharx wrote: Does anyone know of a way to specify the alignment of individual columns in a data frame so that after using write.table the columns are aligned in the file? Do you mean by padding with spaces? set numzer.pad to the desired width and then perhap

Re: [R] Align columns in data frame write.table

2012-08-10 Thread Joshua Wiley
I do not know of any option in write.table() that would allow a variable spacer, such as padding with spaces to make columns centered or right aligned. Everything is just separated somehow. You could look at ?format or ?sprintf which have padding/alignment options. Once you had properly padded ch