Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread Jan van der Laan
2:03 AM *To:* Jan van der Laan *Cc:* r-help@r-project.org; ashish.ku...@esteeadvisors.com *Subject:* Re: [R] R help on write.csv Oh darn, I had that line and then when I copied it to gmail I thought I'd be all slick and clean up my code: oh well...just not my day/thread... It's possible to work a

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread Ashish Kumar
, 2011 12:03 AM To: Jan van der Laan Cc: r-help@r-project.org; ashish.ku...@esteeadvisors.com Subject: Re: [R] R help on write.csv Oh darn, I had that line and then when I copied it to gmail I thought I'd be all slick and clean up my code: oh well...just not my day/thread... It's possib

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Oh darn, I had that line and then when I copied it to gmail I thought I'd be all slick and clean up my code: oh well...just not my day/thread... It's possible to work around the repeated headers business (change to something like "Call$col.names <- !append") but yeah, at this point I'm thinking it

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread Jan van der Laan
Michael, You example doesn't seem to work. Append isn't passed on to the write.table call. You will need to add a Call$append<- append to the function. And even then there will be a problem with the headers that are repeated when appending. An easier solution is to use write.table dire

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread Jan van der Laan
Michael, You example doesn't seem to work. Append isn't passed on to the write.table call. You will need to add a Call$append<- append to the function. And even then there will be a problem with the headers that are repeated when appending. An easier solution is to use write.table dire

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread Jan van der Laan
Michael, You example doesn't seem to work. Append isn't passed on to the write.table call. You will need to add a Call$append<- append to the function. And even then there will be a problem with the headers that are repeated when appending. An easier solution is to use write.table dir

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Touche -- perhaps we could make one though? write.csv.append <- function(..., append = TRUE) { Call <- match.call(expand.dots = TRUE) for (argname in c("col.names", "sep", "dec", "qmethod")) if (!is.null(Call[[argname]])) warning(gettextf("attempt to set '%s' ignored", argname),

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread Tyler Rinker
You haven't followed the rules of the posting guide. No reproducible code. No OS or R version. I'm guessing you are a newer R user and didn't know this. So please read that guide. It'll help others to help you more quickly. If you're new you may not know about using ?object. So if you ty

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread Ivan Calandra
I don't think there is an append argument to write.csv() (well, actually there is one, but set to FALSE). There is however one to write.table() Ivan Le 9/21/2011 14:54, R. Michael Weylandt a écrit : The append argument of write.csv()? Michael On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:01 AM, "Ashish Kumar" wr

Re: [R] R help on write.csv

2011-09-21 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
The append argument of write.csv()? Michael On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:01 AM, "Ashish Kumar" wrote: > Hi, > > > > I wanted to write the data created using R on existing csv file. However > everytime I use write.csv, it overwrites the values already there in the > existing csv file. Any workarou