[R] Getting formatted character from call

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 16:07:32 CEST 2009


Please read the last line to every message to r-help.  There is no
reproducible code in your post.

Anyways, it works for me:

> class(call("round", 1.5))
[1] "call"

> as.character(call("round", 1.5))
[1] "round" "1.5"

> format(call("round", 1.5))
[1] "round(1.5)"


On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Iago Mosqueira <iago.mosqueira at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to get a character vector from an object of class call. But
> using as.character() returns something based on the internal structure
> of the object, and not, as I would like, some akin to the output of
> show() on a call object.
>
> Any idea on how to obtain the same output returned by show?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Iago Mosqueira
>
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