From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Wed Apr 30 11:38:51 1997
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:38:51 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: write()
Message-ID: <199704301038.MAA18107@aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

Following my posting of a write.table() function, Martin suggested that
one could have a generic write() function and special methods for
e.g. time series, data frames, etc.

Well, a month has passed since ...

What does everyone think?  Is it a good idea, or would write.table() be
enough?  If we think that it is not enough, which arguments should the
write methods typically allow?  What about

	write.xxx (x,		# object
		   file =       # filename, default stdout
                   append =     # obvious
                   sep =	# obvious
		   eol =        # end of line char
                   ...)

???

On the other hand, it seems clear that something like write.table() is
nice, and what it should do.  But what about classes other than
data.frame?

-k
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R-alpha: write()
Kurt Hornik