Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-17 Thread Dennis Murphy
I might add that ifelse() is a vectorized function - is the operation you're trying to perform vectorized? D. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Dennis Murphy wrote: > Hi: > > The first argument of ifelse is a logical statement that must evaluate to > either TRUE or FALSE. I'm guessing that you'

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-17 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: The first argument of ifelse is a logical statement that must evaluate to either TRUE or FALSE. I'm guessing that you're using the append function here, which is not a logical statement. Perhaps it would help if you described what you wanted to do with a reproducible example to illustrate the

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-17 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of lord12 > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 9:02 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] convert to csv file > > > I get an error messa

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-17 Thread Sarah Goslee
More context would be useful, but my first guess is that you are running into problems because both file and append are functions. If you didn't explicitly set them to something else, R is using the function. What happens if you instead use: filename <- "myfile.csv" toappend <- FALSE file(filename

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-17 Thread lord12
I get an error message: Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : invalid 'open' argument How do I resolve this? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/convert-to-csv-file-tp2543232p2544070.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:55 PM, lord12 wrote: In order to use the extension csv, is the syntax: write.table(table_list, file= paste("file", x, sep = "").csv, sep = ",") ? Nope. You cannot just tack strings on the end of function calls. Try: write.table(table_list, file= paste("file", x, ".

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread Bill.Venables
help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] convert to csv file In order to use the extension csv, is the syntax: write.table(table_list, file= paste("file", x, sep = "").csv, sep = ",") ? Also I pretty much create a table by doing: table_list= cbind(c1,c2,c3,c4) where

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread lord12
In order to use the extension csv, is the syntax: write.table(table_list, file= paste("file", x, sep = "").csv, sep = ",") ? Also I pretty much create a table by doing: table_list= cbind(c1,c2,c3,c4) where c1...c4 are vectors. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:22 PM, lord12 wrote: I want to open the file in excel and I want the columns in my table to be lined up with the columns in excel. Generally one would use an extension of .csv in that instance, and you may need to move the column headers over one cell because the

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:17 PM, lord12 wrote: write.table(table_list, file= paste("file", x, sep = ""), sep = ",") My output is still a file object. Wasn't that the point? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/convert-to-csv-file-tp2543232p2543251.html Sent from

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread lord12
write.table(table_list, file= paste("file", x, sep = ""), sep = ",") My output is still a file object. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/convert-to-csv-file-tp2543232p2543251.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread lord12
I want to open the file in excel and I want the columns in my table to be lined up with the columns in excel. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/convert-to-csv-file-tp2543232p2543256.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [R] convert to csv file

2010-09-16 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 16, 2010, at 9:49 PM, lord12 wrote: I have a command: write.table(table_list, file= paste("file", x, sep = "")) where x is the file name. How do I convert this file into a csv file in this statement? By using a sep argument of "," for write.table or using the pre- packaged write.