[Rd] showMethods("plot", printTo=FALSE) fails if printTo set to FALSE

[Sklyar, Oleg (London)]

Thanks for a good tip.

Dr Oleg Sklyar
Technology Group
Man Investments Ltd
+44 (0)20 7144 3803
osklyar at maninvestments.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 20 August 2008 13:29
> To: Sklyar, Oleg (London)
> Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] showMethods("plot", printTo=FALSE) fails if 
> printTo set to FALSE
> 
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Sklyar, Oleg (London) wrote:
> 
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > any idea why showMethods fails with the following error 
> when printTo is
> > set to false, i.e. to return the output as a character 
> vector. It works
> > fine if printTo is left default as seen below. The behaviour is
> > consistent for any method I tried. stdin() generally works 
> fine on this
> > system, at least when checked with: x = readLines().
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Oleg
> >
> >> x = showMethods("plot", printTo=FALSE)
> > Error in cat(file = printTo, sep = "", ...) :
> >  cannot switch output to stdin
> 
> This has coerced FALSE to 0, which is connection stdin().  You cannot 
> write to stdin.
> 
> I see no sign that printTo = FALSE has been implemented.  You 
> could use a 
> text connection, e.g.
> 
> con <- textConnection(NULL, open="w")
> x <- showMethods("plot", printTo=con)
> textConnectionValue(con)
> close(con)
> 
> >
> > Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit
> >
> > 1: showMethods("plot", printTo = FALSE)
> > 2: .showMethodsTable(fdef, includeDefs, inherited, classes 
> = classes,
> > showEmpt
> > 3: doFun(f, p)
> > 4: cf("Function: ", func, " (package ", pkg, ")\n")
> > 5: cat(file = printTo, sep = "", ...)
> >
> > Selection: 0
> >> x = showMethods("plot")
> > Function: plot (package graphics)
> > x="ANY", y="ANY"
> > x="SimResults", y="SimResults"
> > x="SimResults", y="missing"
> > x="TimeDateBase", y="character"
> > x="TimeDateBase", y="data.frameOrMatrix"
> > x="TimeDateBase", y="missing"
> > x="TimeSeries", y="missing"
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-08-05 r46234)
> > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >
> > locale:
> > C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] datasets  splines   utils     stats     graphics  
> grDevices methods
> >
> > [8] base
> >
> > other attached packages:
> >
> > ## 64bit RHEL 5
> >
> >
> > Dr Oleg Sklyar
> > Technology Group
> > Man Investments Ltd
> > +44 (0)20 7144 3803
> > osklyar at maninvestments.com
> >
> >
> > 
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