sink a data frame to .txt file

Question

I have a 4-column data frame named as mytable with hundreds of rows. It looks like

id         name                   count        rate
234     uert e@3 erwafrw         


        

Answer 1

seems like write.table() should be OK. just specify a seperator, like ",", or something else not appearing in your name column:

    my.df <- data.frame(ID=c(234,324,329,123), 
      name = c("uert e@3 erwafrw23 weq"," awrt%rw-fref-sfr-32 eq","jiowerfhguy qwhrb","234huib|f|wer fwfqwasgre"),
      count = c(34,78,90,54), rate = c(2,4,8,3))

    write.table(my.df, file = "my.df.txt", sep = ",", col.names = colnames(my.df))

    # read it back in
    my.df2 <- read.table(file = "my.df.txt",sep = ",", header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) 

    all(my.df == my.df2) 
    TRUE