[R] Formatting summary() output to a file

[Bert Gunter]

Not quite sure what you mean here.

R is open source, so

> print.summaryDefault  ## at the prompt. It's in base R, so no package::
prefix needed

will give you the code used for formatting. You can then do the same.

Cheers,
Bert







Bert Gunter

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

>   I want to save the output of summary(df_name) to a disk file and my
> research found that the sink() function is what I want to use. The 'R
> Cookbook'
> provides a an alternative example using cat() to a connection. Here,
>
> con <- file("wysumallyrs.txt", "w")
> cat(summary(wyallyrs), file=con)
> close(con)
>
> produces this output:
>
> Length:402531      Class :character   Mode  :character   NA NA NA NA
> Length:402531      Class :character   Mode  :character   NA NA NA NA Min.
> :90.65   1st Qu.:93.81   Median :94.14   Mean   :93.86   3rd Qu.:94.43
> Max. :98.91   NA's   :225   Min. :1988-10-01   1st Qu.:1996-02-01   Median
> :2001-12-01   Mean   :2002-07-28   3rd Qu.:2008-09-10   Max. :2018-06-21
> NA Min. :1988-10-01 00:30:00   1st Qu.:1996-02-01 00:45:00   Median
> :2001-12-01 15:30:00   Mean   :2002-07-29 03:04:28   3rd Qu.:2008-09-10
> 16:00:00   Max. :2018-06-21 00:00:00   NA
>
>   Is there a way to format this output as it is on the console when the
> script contains
>
> sum <- summary(wyallyrs)
> print(sum)
>
>      date               time                elev           myDate
>  Length:402531      Length:402531      Min.   :90.65   Min.   :1988-10-01
>  Class :character   Class :character   1st Qu.:93.81   1st Qu.:1996-02-01
>  Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Median :94.14   Median :2001-12-01
>                                        Mean   :93.86   Mean   :2002-07-28
>                                        3rd Qu.:94.43   3rd Qu.:2008-09-10
>                                        Max.   :98.91   Max.   :2018-06-21
>                                        NA's   :225
>      myTime
>  Min.   :1988-10-01 00:30:00
>  1st Qu.:1996-02-01 00:45:00
>  Median :2001-12-01 15:30:00
>  Mean   :2002-07-29 03:04:28
>  3rd Qu.:2008-09-10 16:00:00
>  Max.   :2018-06-21 00:00:00
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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