Add lines to a file

Question

I'm new using R. I'm trying to add new lines to a file with my existing data in R. The problem is that my data is of about 30000 rows and 13000 cols. I already try to add a line with the writeLines function but the resulted file contains only the line added.

Answer 1

Have you tried using the write function?

line="blah text blah blah etc etc"
write(line,file="myfile",append=TRUE)

Answer 2

write.table, write.csv and others all have the append= argument, which appends append=TRUE and usually overwrites if append=FALSE. So which one you want to / have to use, depends on your data.

By the way, cat() can also be used to write text to a file and also has the append= argument.

Answer 3

lapply(listOfVector, function(anyNameofVect){ write(anyNameofVect, file="outputFileName", sep="\t", append=TRUE, ncolumns=100000) })

or

lapply(listOfVector, write, file="outputFileName", sep="\t", append=TRUE, ncolumns=100000)