Export a list into a CSV or TXT file in R

Question

I\'m sorry to ask this question. I\'m very noob with R. I know there is a lot of threads which are related to the very same problem. I understood that we cannot export a tab

Answer 1

I think the most straightforward way to do this is using capture.output, thus;

capture.output(summary(mylist), file = "My New File.txt")

Easy!

Answer 2

You can simply wrap your list as a data.frame (data.frame is in fact a special kind of list). Here is an example:

mylist = list() 
mylist[["a"]] = 1:10 
mylist[["b"]] = letters[1:10]
write.table(as.data.frame(mylist),file="mylist.csv", quote=F,sep=",",row.names=F)

or alternatively you can use write.csv (a wrapper around write.table). For the conversion of the list , you can use both as.data.frame(mylist) and data.frame(mylist).

To help in making a reproducible example, you can use functions like dput on your data.

Answer 3

I export lists into YAML format with CPAN YAML package.

l <- list(a="1", b=1, c=list(a="1", b=1))
yaml::write_yaml(l, "list.yaml")

Bonus of YAML that it's a human readable text format so it's easy to read/share/import/etc

$ cat list.yaml
a: '1'
b: 1.0
c:
  a: '1'
  b: 1.0

Answer 4

Check out in here, worked well for me, with no limits in the output size, no omitted elements, even beyond 1000

Exporting large lists in R as .txt or .csv

Answer 5

using sink function :

sink("output.txt")
print(mylist)
sink()

Answer 6

cat(capture.output(print(my.list), file="test.txt"))

from R: Export and import a list to .txt file https://stackoverflow.com/users/1855677/42 is the only thing that worked for me. This outputs the list of lists as it is in the text file