Writes data set out to a file

Usage

write.data(x, file)

Arguments

x The data set to be printed.
file Name of UNIX output file in quotes. If this omitted, the data is written to a file with the name of the data set with a .output added to the end.

Description

This is a friendly version for creating output files using the sink and print functions. To avoid funny printing due to "page breaks," the page length is reset within this function. Besides this detail, the output to the file will be the same as what would appear on the screen if the data set name was typed. Thus, if a matrix is written out, there will be row and column numbers included. Lists will have the same component formatting that appears when the list is printed to the screen.

Side Effects

A UNIX file will be created with a printed version of the data set.

See Also

read.data, write, print, sink

Examples


Write the west coast climate data out to a file called temp.out:

write.data(climate.w,"temp.out")

Write out the triathlon data. The default UNIX file name will be
minitri.output:

write.data(minitri)


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