[R] writing data into files whose names are in a vector
Jeff Newmiller
jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Sat Jul 14 16:51:19 CEST 2012
You have to wrap the write calls in some kind of loop. For your example, you could use a for loop. If you have multiple rows of one name you might look into the dlply function from the plyr package and use lapply to do the actual write calls.
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Raghuraman Ramachandran <optionsraghu at gmail.com> wrote:
>GuRus
>
>How do I use the write function (or write.table or write.csv) to
>achieve
>the following please?
>
>age=c(32,37,39)
>names=c("john","peter","jake")
>
>I would like create in a directory 3 files each named as
>john.csv,peter.csv
>and jake.csv and each file have data from the age vector. That is
>jon.csv
>will contain 32, peter.csv will contain 37 and jake.csv will contain
>39.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Raghu
>
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