[R] Possible to pretty-printing using str()?

[Janko Thyson]

A short annotation: 
I already considered deparsing the object via deparse(x), but that's not
exactly the info I'd like. I'm only interested in a short summary like str()
would give me, not in the deparsed object.

Thx,
Janko

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> Im Auftrag von Janko Thyson
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. November 2010 20:32
> An: r-help at r-project. org
> Betreff: [R] Possible to pretty-printing using str()?
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I'm looking for a suitable way to sort of "one-line-pretty-print" an
> arbitrary R object in some of my log outputs.
> 
> Consider this:
> 
> cat(paste("The object/value is: ", x, ".", sep=""), sep="\n")
> 
> No problem if x is of class:
>   - character (length=1)
>   - numeric   (length=1)
>   - logical   (length=1)
> 
> For lengths > 1 I can get around by paste(x, collapse=my.delimiter).
> So:
> 
> cat(paste("The object/value is: ", paste(x, collapse=my.delimiter),
> ".",
> sep=""), sep="\n")
> 
> "Problem" if x is of class
>   - data.frame
>   - matrix
>   - list
>   - other complex objects
> 
> For those objects something like the output of str() arranged in one
> line of
> class 'character' would be great.
> 
> Is that possible somehow?
> 
> Thanks for any comments,
> Janko
> 
> ########## SYSTEM INFO ##########
> Windows XP SP3
> R 2.12.0 (patched as of 2010-11-22)
> Eclipse 3.6.1 (Helios)
> StatET 0.9.x
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> 
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