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

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.