Save your table in a text file ( see ?write.table ) with the separator
set to "\t" ; you can then import it into excel

for the nb of digits use
>options(digits=3)

see ?options

Anne

2005/8/19, Fredrik Thuring <frt (AT) codan (DOT) dk>:

Hi!

I have a few questions concerning reading of tables from R to
other programs. My main question is if it's even possible to read a table
created in R (with the functions data.frame and save) to Excel (or
maybe SAS) and if so how does one do this? If I just mark the table in R
and copy-paste to Excel the whole table ends up in one single cell, (of
course). My goal is to copy the table to Excel (or SAS) in such a
way that a single observation gets placed in a single cell.

If this isn't possible, is there any way to reduce the number of
digits in a table in R?

I would be more than happy if there were any one who knows the
answer to my questions!

Thanks before hand,
Fredrik Thuring
Research department
Codan Insurance, Copenhagen

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Le 19.08.2005 11:22, Anne a :

>Save your table in a text file ( see ?write.table ) with the separator
>set to "\t" ; you can then import it into excel
>
>for the nb of digits use

>
>>options(digits=3)
>
>>
>
>see ?options
>

Hello,

And if you run R on windows (just a guess because you didn't tell), the
saving-to-a-file part is not necessary. use :
Rwrite.table(your.data.frame, file='clipboard')
and on excel "paste", your data should magically appear on excel

Romain

>Anne
>
>
>2005/8/19, Fredrik Thuring <frt (AT) codan (DOT) dk>:

>
>Hi!
>>
>I have a few questions concerning reading of tables from R to
>>other programs. My main question is if it's even possible to read a table
>>created in R (with the functions data.frame and save) to Excel (or
>>maybe SAS) and if so how does one do this? If I just mark the table in R
>>and copy-paste to Excel the whole table ends up in one single cell, (of
>>course). My goal is to copy the table to Excel (or SAS) in such a
>>way that a single observation gets placed in a single cell.
>>
>If this isn't possible, is there any way to reduce the number of
>>digits in a table in R?
>>
>I would be more than happy if there were any one who knows the
>>answer to my questions!
>>
>Thanks before hand,
>Fredrik Thuring
>Research department
>Codan Insurance, Copenhagen
>
>>

Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Romain Francois wrote:

Le 19.08.2005 11:22, Anne a :
>
>Save your table in a text file ( see ?write.table ) with the separator
>set to "\t" ; you can then import it into excel
>>
>for the nb of digits use
options(digits=3)

for printing in R: see below for other suggestions.

And if you run R on windows (just a guess because you didn't tell), the
saving-to-a-file part is not necessary. use :
Rwrite.table(your.data.frame, file='clipboard')
and on excel "paste", your data should magically appear on excel

You are likely to be better off with write.csv(). There _is_ a manual (`R
Data Import/Export') about this. (In particular, the default setting for
col.names in write.table is not usually what Excel usually expects, and
the default separator is space, so you better not have spaces (or for
Anne's suggestion, tabs) in the data.)

Romain
>
>Anne
>>
>>
>2005/8/19, Fredrik Thuring <frt (AT) codan (DOT) dk>:
>>
>>
Hi!

I have a few questions concerning reading of tables from R to
other programs. My main question is if it's even possible to read a table
created in R (with the functions data.frame and save) to Excel (or
maybe SAS) and if so how does one do this? If I just mark the table in R
and copy-paste to Excel the whole table ends up in one single cell, (of
course). My goal is to copy the table to Excel (or SAS) in such a
way that a single observation gets placed in a single cell.

If this isn't possible, is there any way to reduce the number of
digits in a table in R?

?round, ?signif, ?format. (Anne's answer applies to printing, not to the
table and not to write.table/csv.)

Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Romain Francois wrote:
>
>Le 19.08.2005 11:22, Anne a :
>
Save your table in a text file ( see ?write.table ) with the separator
set to "\t" ; you can then import it into excel

for the nb of digits use
options(digits=3)

for printing in R: see below for other suggestions.
>
>And if you run R on windows (just a guess because you didn't tell), the
>saving-to-a-file part is not necessary. use :
>Rwrite.table(your.data.frame, file='clipboard')
>and on excel "paste", your data should magically appear on excel
>
You are likely to be better off with write.csv(). There _is_ a manual (`R
Data Import/Export') about this. (In particular, the default setting for
col.names in write.table is not usually what Excel usually expects, and the
default separator is space, so you better not have spaces (or for Anne's
suggestion, tabs) in the data.)

Peter Dalgaard pointed out that write.table defaults to quoting, so it is
quotes in fields that would be a problem not tabs/spaces. However,
write.csv() is set up with the correct options for that, and also for the
header line if row names are written (the default).