R devel - Mar 2006 - Wishlist: 'append' argument for write.ftable()

I would like to suggest that an 'append' argument be added to
write.ftable().  This would allow, for example, the user to
append ftable() output to a text report.

I have attached an svn patch to ftable.R that makes the proposed
change to write.ftable(). [A very trivial change since 'append'
is simply passed to cat().]

I have also attached a patch to read.ftable.Rd which documents
the proposed argument (borrowing from cat.Rd).

Thanks for considering this,

Stephen
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Stephen Weigand
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

On Mar 16, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Stephen D. Weigand wrote:
> I would like to suggest that an 'append' argument be added to
> write.ftable().  This would allow, for example, the user to
> append ftable() output to a text report.
>
> I have attached an svn patch to ftable.R that makes the proposed
> change to write.ftable(). [A very trivial change since 'append'
> is simply passed to cat().]
>
> I have also attached a patch to read.ftable.Rd which documents
> the proposed argument (borrowing from cat.Rd).
The text-based patch files were attached but had extensions *.patch.
I'm resending them with *.txt extensions in case that's necessary.
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As a backup, the patches are in-line below.
Thanks again,
Stephen


Index: R/src/library/stats/R/ftable.R
==================================================================---
R/src/library/stats/R/ftable.R      (revision 37549)
+++ R/src/library/stats/R/ftable.R      (working copy)
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
      x
  }

-write.ftable <- function(x, file = "", quote = TRUE,
+write.ftable <- function(x, file = "", append = FALSE, quote =
TRUE,
                           digits = getOption("digits"))
  {
      if(!inherits(x, "ftable"))
@@ -191,7 +191,8 @@
                    format(unclass(x), digits = digits))
      x <- cbind(apply(LABS, 2, format, justify = "left"),
                 apply(DATA, 2, format, justify = "right"))
-    cat(t(x), file = file, sep = c(rep(" ", ncol(x) - 1),
"\n"))
+    cat(t(x), file = file, append = append,
+        sep = c(rep(" ", ncol(x) - 1), "\n"))
      invisible(ox)
  }

Index: R/src/library/stats/man/read.ftable.Rd
==================================================================---
R/src/library/stats/man/read.ftable.Rd      (revision 37549)
+++ R/src/library/stats/man/read.ftable.Rd      (working copy)
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
    \item{skip}{the number of lines of the data file to skip before
      beginning to read data.}
    \item{x}{an object of class \code{"ftable"}.}
+  \item{append}{logical.  If \code{TRUE} and \code{file} is the name of
+    a file (and not a connection or \code{"|cmd"}), the output from
+    \code{write.ftable} is appended to the file.  If \code{FALSE},
+    the contents of \code{file} will be overwritten.}
    \item{digits}{an integer giving the number of significant digits to
      use for (the cell entries of) \code{x}.}
    \item{\dots}{further arguments to be passed to or from methods.}