R Print list to a text file

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I have in R a list like this    gt  print head mylist 2     1    1  234984  10354  41175 932711 426928    2    1  1693237   13462   Each element of the list has different number of its elements   I would like to print this list to a text file like this   mylist txt 234984  10354  41175 932711 426928 1693237   13462   I know that I can use sink    but it prints names of elements   x     y  and I want to avoid it  Also because of different number of elements in each element of the list it is not possible to use write   or write table

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Another way  writeLines unlist lapply mylist  paste  collapse

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Not tested  but it should work  edited after comments   lapply mylist  write   test txt   append TRUE  ncolumns 1000

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Here is another  cat sapply mylist  toString   file  sep   n

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depending on your tastes  an alternative to nico s answer   d lt -lapply mylist  write  file          append T

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I solve this problem by mixing the solutions above    sink   Users my myTest dat   writeLines unlist lapply k  paste  collapse        sink     I think it works well

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Format won t be completely the same  but it does write the data to a text file  and R will be able to reread it using dget when you want to retrieve it again as a list   dput mylist   mylist txt

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Here s another way using sink   sink sink dir and file name   print yourList   sink

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I saw in the comments for Nico s answer that some people were running into issues with saving lists that had lists within them  I also ran into this problem with some of my work and was hoping that someone found a better answer than what I found however no one responded to their issue    So   ali   FMKerckhof  and  Kerry the only way that I found to save a nested list is to use sink   like user6585653 suggested  I tried to up vote his answer but could not   It is not the best way to do it since you link the text file which means it can be easily over written or other results may be saved within that file if you do not cancel the sink  See below for the code   sink  mylist txt   print mylist  sink     Make sure to have the sink   at the end your code so that you cancel the sink

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