[R] print method for str?

[David Hajage]

Exact, "efficiency", I didn't see that. Thank you very much.

2010/8/26 Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk>:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:42 +0200, David Hajage wrote:
>> Hello useRs and guRus,
>>
>> I was trying to add the support of str() in the ascii package, and I
>> realized that str() does not have a print method. It uses cat() from inside
>> the function and returns nothing.
>>
>> Since it is not usual in R, I wonder why? Is there a particular reason?
>
> The Value section of ?str has a (the?) reason. Efficiency.
>
> str is an S3 generic though, so you can write your own methods for it.
>
> HTH
>
> G
>
>> Thank you very much for your attention on... well, this unimportant
>> question.
>>
>> david
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