formatting using write.table

["Leeds, Mark" <mleeds@mlp.com>]

this is a formatting question.

 

i have some variables called

 

dollaramount_round(invalue1,0)

currencyamount_round(invalue2,0)

ticker1shares_round(invalue3,0)

ticker2shares_round(invalue4,0)

 

so, they all have no decimals.

 

then i have the following statements

 

tempframe_data.frame(cbind(dollarAmount,currencyAmount,ticker1Shares,ticker2Shares)

write.table(tempframe,file=sigfile,sep = "\t",append=T,quote.strings=F,dimnames.write=F)

 

these statements are in a loop but when the printing is done, i get what seem to

be random cases where things are not lined up, for example

 

59999    7199880   22570    12307

 

149057  17886840        42186       27905

 

since i am using the sep= "\t" option, shouldn't the fields get lined up ?

granted, maybe they should be a little off because one number is longer than

the other but not off to the degree as shown above ?

 

i saw something called justify.format as an option in the help for write.table

so maybe i need to use this instead but i wasn't sure how to use it.

 

 

thanks.