[R] xtable - print - suppress output

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 21, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote:

>
> Am 21.09.2009 um 23:59 schrieb Rolf Turner:
>
>>
>> On 22/09/2009, at 9:52 AM, Martin Batholdy wrote:

>>> I use xtable to convert data.frames to html tables.
>>> But when I use the print-command I always get the whole output  
>>> printed
>>> even if I just want to save the html table into a variable;
>>>
>>> table <- print(xtable(CERAT), type="html")
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I suppress that output is printed?
>>
>> If you don't want it printed, then why the <expletive deleted>
>> are you (explicitly!) using print???   Words fail me!!!
>>
>> 	cheers,
>>
>> 		Rolf Turner
>
>
> Because I don't get html code when I only use xtable(xy)

One further alternative that is quieter is the html function in Hmisc,  
however this produces a browser page display rather than an R console  
output. It does not output h to the console upon creation

data(tli)
h <- html(tli)
h    # the print.html method is part of Hmisc

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT