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You may at times wish to write a data file that conforms to a certain format. For example, you may have run analysis on a given dataset and want to use the same code to read in and analyze a simulated dataset that you created in R.
The code below presents an example. A matrix has been generated containing seven columns of data. Using the sprintf command, we can provide a vector of format strings followed by the values to be formatted.
n<- 7
m<-5
total<-m*n
mymat<-format(matrix(rnorm(total), nrow=m, ncol=n), nsmall =1, digits=2)
mymat
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7]
[1,] "-0.3818" " 0.5939" "-0.3264" "-0.3730" "-1.0548" " 0.7681" "-0.3881"
[2,] " 1.0615" "-0.4285" "-1.5244" " 0.4343" " 0.0050" " 1.8232" "-0.6379"
[3,] "-0.0724" " 0.4410" " 0.2003" "-1.6565" " 0.5057" " 1.1976" " 0.4964"
[4,] "-0.1853" " 0.0024" "-0.0155" " 0.1757" "-1.6813" " 0.0164" "-1.2455"
[5,] " 0.8870" "-1.5517" "-1.2553" "-0.6721" " 0.3025" "-0.3071" " 0.2846"
afixed<- sprintf("%5.2f%5.2f%5.2f%5.1f%5.1f%2.0f%3.0f",
mymat[,1], mymat[,2],mymat[,3],mymat[,4],mymat[,5],
mymat[,6],mymat[,7])
afixed <- as.matrix(afixed)
afixed
[,1]
[1,] "-0.38 0.59-0.33 -0.4 -1.1 1 -0"
[2,] " 1.06-0.43-1.52 0.4 0.0 2 -1"
[3,] "-0.07 0.44 0.20 -1.7 0.5 1 0"
[4,] "-0.19 0.00-0.02 0.2 -1.7 0 -1"
[5,] " 0.89-1.55-1.26 -0.7 0.3-0 0"
We can see that the formats have been applied to the original data.
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