[R] write list ascii file

[Jim Holtman]

what is that you want to do with this data after it is written?  you can easily write a function using 'cat' to create any format that you want.

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On Jul 19, 2012, at 5:09, Skála, Zdeněk (INCOMA GfK)<Zdenek.Skala at gfk.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> apologies for this (perhaps recurrent) question but I did not found a question when searching mailing lists.
> 
> How to write a list of a simple kind, e.g.:
> 
> abc <- list(one=(1:2), two=(1:5))
> 
> # to a file? I understand that write() & co. cannot work but when I try
> 
> sink("aa.txt", append=T, split=T)
> abc
> sink()
> 
> # the output is indeed "split by rows" in the textfile, each starting with row numbers (and I have rather long "vectors" resulting in many rows...):
> 
> $one
> [1] 1 2
> 
> $two
> [1] 1 2 3 4 5
> 
> What I would need is a simple "set of vectors" starting with name in the style of:
> $one 1 2
> $two 1 2 3 4 5
> 
> Is it possible in R?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> Zdenek Skala
> 
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