XploRe Help : writem

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Library:	xplore
See also:	readm readcsvm readascii read write writecsv

Quantlet:		writem
Description:		writes numerical and text data to a text file

Usage:	`writem(data,filename{,separator,dfmt,tfmt})`
Input:
	`data`	data to write; they can be a numerical matrix, a text matrix or a list containing numerical and text vectors and matrices having all the same number of rows
	`filename`	string, contains the name of the file
	`separator`	optional string, contains the data separator sign (default is tabulator, which is used even if a separator is missing or an empty string)
	`dfmt`	optional format string for numerical vectors and matrices ("%g" by default)
	`tfmt`	optional format string for text vectors and matrices ("%s" by default)

Example:

library("xplore") x = #(1,2.34,3.0,4) t = #("Hi","test","three", "four") file = getenv("XPL4OUTDATA") + "/" + "exwrite.dat" writem(list(x,t), file) r = readm(file) r

Result:

The file written to "exwrite.dat" contains lines

1       Hi
2.34    test
3       three
4       four

and the output window contains

Contents of string
[1,] "readm: Found    4 line(s) and    2 column(s)"

Contents of r.type
[1,]        0
[2,]        1

Contents of r.double
[1,]        1
[2,]     2.34
[3,]        3
[4,]        4

Contents of r.text
[1,] "Hi"
[2,] "test"
[3,] "three"
[4,] "four"

Author: P. Cizek, 20020708