R: Writes a data.frame to tabular text file

writeDataFrame.data.frame {R.utils} | R Documentation

## Writes a data.frame to tabular text file

### Description

Writes a data.frame to tabular text file with an optional header.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
    writeDataFrame(data, file, path=NULL, sep="\t", quote=FALSE, row.names=FALSE,
      col.names=!append, ..., header=list(), createdBy=NULL,
      createdOn=format(Sys.time(), format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z"),
      nbrOfRows=nrow(data), headerPrefix="# ", headerSep=": ", append=FALSE, overwrite=FALSE)

### Arguments

`data` | A `data.frame`.
`file` | A `connection` or a filename to write to.
`path` | The directory where the file will be written.
`sep, quote, row.names, col.names, ...` | Additional arguments passed to `write.table`.
`header` | An optional named `list` of header rows to be written at the beginning of the file. If `NULL`, no header will be written.
`createdBy, createdOn, nbrOfRows` | If non-`NULL`, common header rows to be added to the header.
`headerPrefix` | A `character` string specifying the prefix of each header row.
`headerSep` | A `character` string specifying the character separating the header name and header values.
`append` | If `TRUE`, the output is appended to an existing file.
`overwrite` | If `TRUE`, an existing file is overwritten.

### Value

Returns (invisibly) the pathname to the file written (or the `connection` written to).

### Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

### See Also

`write.table`. `readTable`().

[Package R.utils version 2.7.0 Index]