How to write a text file through R?
This recipe helps you write a text file through R
Recipe Objective
How to write a text file through R? Creating a new file or any format say.csv , etc and writing the data generated inside that file is nothing but writing a text file in R. For instance, we create a 4*5 matrix in our example. We then pass this matrix through a dataframe. Using the write () function this matrix is written/displayed inside a new.csv file is stored inside the files folder. This recipe demonstrates an example of how to write a file.
Step 1 -Creating a 4*5 matrix in a vector m
m <- matrix(c(1:10), nrow = 4, ncol = 5, byrow = TRUE)
print(m)
Step 2 -Create a dataframe for the matrix
df <- data.frame(m)
Step 3 -Write a text file
Using the write.csv() function the matrix created gets written/displayed in the new csv file named'example file.csv'. This file can be accessed from the files folder. syntax - write.csv(data,filename) where, data - the created data filename - the name of the file in which you wish to save your data
write.csv(df,"example file.csv")
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