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 table if one of its elements is a list but I didn't manage to solve my problem though. So, I got a list in R and I want to export it into a CSV or TXT file. Here is the error message that I get when I execute this write.table command :
write.table(mylist,"test.txt",sep=";")
Error in .External2(C_writetable, x, file, nrow(x), p, rnames, sep, eol, :
unimplemented type 'list' in 'EncodeElement'
Here is the first element of my list :
$f10010_1
$f10010_1$mots
[1] X16 ESPRESSO TDISC TASSIMO
[5] CARTE NOIRE A LAVAZZA
[9] MALONGO MIO MODO 123
[13] CAPSULES DOSES 78G LONG
[17] SPRESSO CAFE 120G CLASSIC
[21] 104G 128G AROMATIQUE INTENSE
[25] 112G 156G 520G 5X16
[29] PROMO TRIPACK X24 126G
[33] 16 4X16 APPASSIONATAMENTE APPASSIONATEMENTE
[37] BRESIL CAPSUL COLOMBIE CORSE
[41] CREMOSAMENTE DELICATI DELIZIOSAMENTE DIVINAMENTE
[45] DOLCEMENTE EQI GRAND GRANDE
[49] GT GUATEMALA HAITI INTENSAMENTE
[53] ITALIAN MAGICAMENTE MERE MOKA78G
[57] PETITS PRODUCT PURSMATIN RESERVE
[61] RISTRETO SOAVEMENTE STYLE X36
64 Levels: 104G 112G 120G 123 126G 128G 156G 16 4X16 520G 5X16 78G ... X36
$f10010_1$nblabel
[1] 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32
[27] 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32
[53] 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32
Levels: 32
$f10010_1$Freq
[1] 18 16 16 15 14 14 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 6 5 5 3 3 3 3 2 2
[27] 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
[53] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
$f10010_1$pct
[1] 0.56250 0.50000 0.50000 0.46875 0.43750 0.43750 0.28125 0.28125 0.28125
[10] 0.28125 0.28125 0.25000 0.25000 0.25000 0.21875 0.21875 0.21875 0.18750
[19] 0.15625 0.15625 0.09375 0.09375 0.09375 0.09375 0.06250 0.06250 0.06250
[28] 0.06250 0.06250 0.06250 0.06250 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125
[37] 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125
[46] 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125
[55] 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125 0.03125
[64] 0.03125
Thank you all for your help in advance!
So essentially you have a list of lists, with mylist being the name of the main list and the first element being $f10010_1 which is printed out (and which contains 4 more lists).
I think the easiest way to do this is to use lapply with the addition of dataframe (assuming that each list inside each element of the main list (like the lists in $f10010_1) has the same length):
lapply(mylist, function(x) write.table( data.frame(x), 'test.csv' , append= T, sep=',' ))
The above will convert $f10010_1 into a dataframe then do the same with every other element and append one below the other in 'test.csv'
You can also type ?write.table on your console to check what other arguments you need to pass when you write the table to a csv file e.g. whether you need row names or column names etc.
I export lists into YAML format with CPAN YAML package.
l <- list(a="1", b=1, c=list(a="1", b=1))
yaml::write_yaml(l, "list.yaml")
Bonus of YAML that it's a human readable text format so it's easy to read/share/import/etc
$ cat list.yaml
a: '1'
b: 1.0
c:
a: '1'
b: 1.0
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.
using sink function :
sink("output.txt")
print(mylist)
sink()
Check out in here, worked well for me, with no limits in the output size, no omitted elements, even beyond 1000
I think the most straightforward way to do this is using capture.output, thus;
capture.output(summary(mylist), file = "My New File.txt")
Easy!
You can write your For loop to individually store dataframes from a list:
allocation = list()
for(i in 1:length(allocation)){
write.csv(data.frame(allocation[[i]]), file = paste0(path, names(allocation)[i], '.csv'))
}
cat(capture.output(print(my.list), file="test.txt"))
from R: Export and import a list to .txt file https://stackoverflow.com/users/1855677/42 is the only thing that worked for me. This outputs the list of lists as it is in the text file
Source: Stackoverflow.com