How to export text from R into one cell in Excel

Question

I have 3205 observations in my dataset. Each observation contains several paragraphs worth of text and looks something like this:

BRIEF_ID	STATE	BRIEF
01999110036250	ALABAMA	paragraphs of text here...

My goal is to export this dataset into Excel/csv so that it looks exactly like it does in R. So far I've tried different variations of this:

write.table(MyData, file="MyData.csv", sep=",")

Unfortunately, when I use this syntax, it exports into Excel/csv in a very weird way, splitting the paragraphs of text into multiple columns and multiple rows. For example

BRIEF_ID	STATE	BRIEF
01999110036250	ALABAMA	paragraphs	text
of
here...

Any idea how I can keep the paragraphs of text together in one cell?

UPDATED TEXT/NOTEPAD EXAMPLE FOR 1 OBSERVATION*

41,' ' 0499970019131,ARIZONA,"GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE., THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY., AND I WANT TO UPDATE YOU ON WHERE ARIZONA IS IN ITS CURRENT SITUATION, WHERE OUR NUMBERS, ARE, AND THE ACTION STEPS WE INTEND TO TAKE GOING FORWARD., I WANT TO BEGIN BY JUST AGAIN SAYING THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR NURSES, DOCTORS, EMERGENCY, MEDICAL RESPONDERS, AND HEALTHCARE WORKERS, T",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, DAY THAT WE ARE DEFINITELY,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Answer 1

Well, supposing you have a dataframe data in memory, then:

# run install.packages("writexl") to install it 
writexl::write_xlsx(data, "my_data.xlsx")

Answer 2

write_xlsx will probably help but from the CSV posted I think the issue is parsing. The csv sample gets imported mostly intact in Excel 365 in that the main paragraph is in a single cell on my machine so it must be some CSV / local setting on your end while importing.

Working with CSV for large amounts of unstructured text that has commas can cause a lot of strange issues. I would change the separator to | or something even less commonly used by humans. Then import it using Excel Power Query by opening a blank workbook and selecting "Get Data -> Text/CSV" under the data tab and telling it what delimiter you used. You can also specify the csv format in the power query import although excel takes a good guess.

Also it may be stating the obvious but those rows of ,,,,,, will translate into blank columns, I am assuming that is intended if not then there may be an issue with how the data is structured for export.