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I am working with the R programming language.

Suppose I have the following dataset:

id = 1:10
var_1 = rnorm(10,10,10)
var_2 = rnorm(10,10,10)
data_1 = data.frame(id, var_1, var_2)

If I use the "dput" statement in R, I get the following output:

 dput(data_1)

structure(list(id = 1:10, var_1 = c(8.82195120774659, -3.93182446227049, 
4.71778269084519, 1.75623141174446, 8.04018019946558, 24.512930378032, 
18.5285862803682, 14.0274634385899, 13.2841577275347, 15.2732721877118
), var_2 = c(29.6332731622598, 22.5632323327142, -8.9690858260254, 
-7.20867402757854, -0.040059695538643, 0.727780887727967, 27.3854470138422, 
5.04872507031284, 0.934424948207598, 17.6628276038318)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-10L))

I can then manually copy/paste this output into a notepad/txt file:

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But now, suppose my file is much bigger:

id = 1:100000
var_1 = rnorm(100000,10,10)
var_2 = rnorm(100000,10,10)
data_2 = data.frame(id, var_1, var_2)

When I write dput(data_2) the output is too big to manually copy/paste into notepad.

I tried the following idea:

attempt = capture.output(dput(final))
saveRDS(attempt,"attempt.RDS")

I then tried to open "attempt.RDS" in notepad, but I get the following output:

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Can someone please show me how to fix this problem?

Thanks!

1 Answer 1

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You can save the output of dput in the text file directly without manually copy-pasting it. For example, with mtcars dataset you can do -

dput(mtcars, 'new_file.txt')

This will save the output of dput in the file called new_file.txt in your working directory.

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