[R] deparse - width.cutoff

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, johan Faux wrote:

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> I have a question about "deparse" function in R
> What is the reason that "deparse" use an argument like "width.cutoff" ? 
> Why the maximum cutoff is 500?
> I was manipulating an R formula and used "deparse". Since the length of user's formula was greater then 500, my code didnt work.

Why do you want this all on one line?  deparse does work, just produces 
multiple lines if the output exceeeds the cutoff.

If you do want it, paste the lines together, as e.g. aov() does.

> 
> thanks
> Johan
> 
> johan Faux <johanfaux at yahoo.com> wrote: I have a question about "deparse" function in R
> What is the reason that "deparse" use an argument like "width.cutoff" ? 
> Why the maximum cutoff is 500?
> I was manipulating an R formula and used "deparse". Since the length of user's formula was greater then 500, my code didnt work.
> 
> thanks
> Johan
> 
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