write: Write Data to a File
In robertzk/monadicbase: The R Base Package

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The data (usually a matrix) x are written to file file. If x is a two-dimensional matrix you need to transpose it to get the columns in file the same as those in the internal representation.

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write(x, file = "data",
      ncolumns = if(is.character(x)) 1 else 5,
      append = FALSE, sep = " ")

`x`	the data to be written out, usually an atomic vector.
`file`	A connection, or a character string naming the file to write to. If `""`, print to the standard output connection. If it is `"\|cmd"`, the output is piped to the command given by ‘cmd’.
`ncolumns`	the number of columns to write the data in.
`append`	if `TRUE` the data `x` are appended to the connection.
`sep`	a string used to separate columns. Using `sep = "\t"` gives tab delimited output; default is `" "`.

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

write is a wrapper for cat, which gives further details on the format used.

save for writing any R objects, write.table for data frames, and scan for reading data.

# create a 2 by 5 matrix
x <- matrix(1:10, ncol = 5)

# the file data contains x, two rows, five cols
# 1 3 5 7 9 will form the first row
write(t(x))

# Writing to the "console" 'tab-delimited'
# two rows, five cols but the first row is 1 2 3 4 5
write(x, "", sep = "\t")
unlink("data") # tidy up