> print(1:100)  [1]   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26
 [27]  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42
43  44  45  46  47  48  49  50  51  52
 [53]  53  54  55  56  57  58  59  60  61  62  63  64  65  66  67  68
69  70  71  72  73  74  75  76  77  78
 [79]  79  80  81  82  83  84  85  86  87  88  89  90  91  92  93  94
95  96  97  98  99 100> cat(1:100)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61
62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84
85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100



On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 04/09/2013 22:56, Noah Silverman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Working with R, I often want to copy and paste some values somewhere
>> else.  (Its not worth saving a CSV file for a dozen or so entries.)  Or, I
>> may want to copy all the names of an object into some code.
>>
>> R, rather nicely, wraps output with an index number on the left side.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> [1] -1.07781972 -1.12157840  1.79303276  1.53313388 -1.30854455
>>  0.45641730  0.23866722 -1.96265084
>>    [9] -1.90779578 -0.68418936 -2.04910282  0.12008358 -1.71072687
>> -0.36707605 -0.36939204 -2.02799948
>>   [17]  0.36466562 -1.34204214 -0.45100125 -0.60483154  0.42208268
>> -0.89535576 -1.09398009 -2.07257728
>>   [25] -0.04615273 -0.23659570  0.27232736  1.28432538 -2.17042948
>> -0.45364579  1.52957528  0.39838320
>>   [33]  0.64923323 -1.01651051 -0.36287974 -0.73787761  0.48088199
>> -1.19539814 -0.80079095 -1.02507331
>>
>>
>>
>> While this is great to read on screen, it is a pain to have to edit out
>> all the index numbers.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to just back the values, or even a comma separated
>> list of the values?
>>
>
> There are many.  Here I usually use write(x, "").  The file = "" trick
> works in many other functions.
>
> Using dput() and removing c( and ) is also often useful when comma
> separation is needed.
>
>
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