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

[Janko Thyson]

Aha: capture.output(str(x))

Sorry for the two previous eMails, but sometimes posting to the list helps
me thinking somehow ;-)

Greetz,
Janko

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> 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 20:36
> An: 'r-help at r-project. org'
> Betreff: Re: [R] Possible to pretty-printing using str()?
> 
> 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
> >
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