CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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vevek seetharaman
vevek seetharaman

Reputation: 75

Is there a way to ignore "\n" while writing to a text file in R?

Am trying to write a summary onto excel using text file. Here is the example of how it looks like in R output.

[1] "\n\nDuring the post-intervention period, the response variable had an average value of approx.196.08K. In the absence of an intervention, we would have expected an average response of 199.41K.

However, when i write this to a text file using write.table this is how the text file looks like

*During the post-intervention period, the response variable had an average value of approx.196.08K.

In the absence of an intervention, we would have expected an average response of 199.41K.*

Here is the code am using for this. 

write.table(analysis_text, file = "analysis_text.txt", sep = "",
            row.names = TRUE, col.names = NA)

Is there anyway i can ignore "/n" while writing into txt file in R?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 629

Answers (2)

ThomasIsCoding
ThomasIsCoding

Reputation: 101818

If you want to ignore "\n", maybe you can do some pre-processing on your analisys_text, i.e., gsub("\n","",analisys_text), which removes "\n" in your texts.

In this sense, you code should be like

write.table(gsub("\n","",analisys_text), 
            file = "analysis_text.txt", 
            sep = "",
            row.names = TRUE, 
            col.names = NA)

Upvotes: 1

Tasos Papastylianou
Tasos Papastylianou

Reputation: 22225

Looking at the write.table help, the function can also take an eol argument, which defaults to \n.

Change that to eol="" and you should be fine.

Upvotes: 0

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