.BG
.FN write
.TL
Write Data to File
.CS
write(data, file, ncolumns, append=FALSE)
.PP
.AG data
vector, missing values (`NA's) are allowed.
.AG file
optional character string naming the file on which to write
the data.
.AG ncolumns
optional number of data items to put on each line of `file'.
Default is 5 per line for numeric data, 1 per line for
character data.
.AG append
logical, should the data be appended to any information
previously in `file'?
.PP
Because of the way matrix data is stored,
matrices are written in column by column order.
.SA
`dput', `dump', `cat'.
.EX
write(x,"filex")

# write matrix row by row
write(t(x),file="byrows",ncol=ncol(x))
.KW file
.WR
