write.csv() a list of unequally sized data.frames

Question

I would like to pump out a list of data.frame() objects to a csv file so I can work on it for presentation. I\'m finding that it\'s replying with an error:

Answer 1

That's a warning, not an error. You can't change append=FALSE with write.csv. ?write.csv says:

Attempts to change ‘append’, ‘col.names’, ‘sep’, ‘dec’ or ‘qmethod’ are ignored, with a warning.

Use write.table with sep="," instead.

Answer 2

You can now export multiple dataframes in a single CSV using sheetr

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)

# Install package from github
install_github('d-notebook/sheetr')
library(sheetr)

# Create a list of dataframes
iris_dataframe = list()
iris_dataframe[["Setosa subset"]] = head(iris[iris$Species == "setosa",])
iris_dataframe[["Versicolor subset"]] = head(iris[iris$Species == "versicolor",])

# Write the list of dataframes to CSV file
write_dataframes_to_csv(iris_dataframe, "exmaple_csv.csv")

Which will export:

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Or, if you prefer to do that manually, you can use sink files:

# Sample dataframes:
df1 = iris[1:5, ]
df2 = iris[20:30, ]

# Start a sink file with a CSV extension
sink('multiple_df_export.csv')

 # Write the first dataframe, with a title and final line separator 
cat('This is the first dataframe')
write.csv(df1)
cat('____________________________')

cat('\n')
cat('\n')

# Write the 2nd dataframe to the same sink
cat('This is the second dataframe')
write.csv(df2)
cat('____________________________')

# Close the sink
sink()