[R] putting output from print() into a string?

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Sun Nov 12 16:29:31 CET 2000



On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, David Firth wrote:

> Is there some neat way of storing the printed representation of an 
> object as a character string?  I can see how it could be done via 
> disk using sink() and then scan(), but that's ugly.
> 
> Something like Lisp-Stat's "with-output-to-string" macro perhaps?

dump() ?

Uwe Ligges

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