writing objects of list in a different .csv files using for loop in r

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HI I want to write objects of list into different csv files, how do i do that like I want elements of dataFrame "a" to be written into different csv file, elements of dataFrame "b" to be written into different csv file and so on. any help would be much appreciated this is what I have tried

a = data.frame(1:5)
b = data.frame(c(11,22,33,44,55))
d = data.frame(c("aa","bb","cc","dd","ee"))
e = data.frame(c(TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,TRUE,FALSE))
g = data.frame(c(1,0,1,0,1))
myList <- list(a,b,d,e,g)
myfunction <- function(myList) {
  for(i in 1:myList) {
    write.table(myList[i], file = paste(names(myList), ".csv", sep = "",sep = ",")
  }
 }

Buggy · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-28 08:13:39Z

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First of all you got several typos in your code. E.g. not closing the bracket after your paste command, etc.

However, the main reason why your code does not work is, because you did not create a named list. You need to name your list elements, if you want to use names on the list. Otherwise names(myList) will return just NULL. Have a look at how myList is defined now.

a = data.frame(1:5)
b = data.frame(c(11,22,33,44,55))
d = data.frame(c("aa","bb","cc","dd","ee"))
e = data.frame(c(TRUE,FALSE,TRUE,TRUE,FALSE))
g = data.frame(c(1,0,1,0,1))
myList <- list(a=a,b=b,d=d,e=e,g=g)

myfunction <- function(myList) {
  for(i in seq(1,length(myList))) {
  write.table(myList[[i]], file = paste(names(myList)[i], ".csv", sep=""),sep = ",")
  }
}

answered Mar 28, 2016 at 8:13

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Andre_k Over a year ago

apologies! I being a novice this type of typos has occur,anyways this is what I expected ..Thanks

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