R help - Jun 2002 - cat output To data.frame.rows ?

Hi,
is there a possibilty  to get my function output with "cat "
as data.frame.rows with variables ?

Var1---------------- 8 15 1 3
Var2---------------- 0.170 0.319 0.0213 0.0638
Var3---------------- 83.8 88.6 90 75
Var4---------------- 84.3 84.3 100 83.3
Var5---------------- 62.5 56 20 53.3
            function(data.frame) {
       ....
        ....
       cat("Var1",Var1.r,"\n")
       cat("Var2",Var2.r,"\n")
       cat("Var3",Var3.r,"\n")
       cat("Var4",Var4.r,"\n")
       cat("Var5",tapply(VAR.X,VAR.X,mean,na.rm=TRUE),"\n")
         }

example:
Var1    Var2    Var3     Var4     Var5
23        34        65        67           56
56        54        54        34            45
15        25        34        34            23


really  thanks for advance & regards,christian


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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Christian Schulz wrote:

  |Hi,
  |is there a possibilty  to get my function output with "cat "
  |as data.frame.rows with variables ?
  |
  |Var1---------------- 8 15 1 3
  |Var2---------------- 0.170 0.319 0.0213 0.0638
...

It is unfortunately not quite clear to me what do you want.  I think if you
want to get _output from cat()_ into a data frame, the only possibility is
to save the region into a file and then read in as data frame (using
read.table(... row.names=T).

I would rather suggest to do it 

a) automatically, using sink() to redirect the output to a file, and then
reading the file in again, perhaps correcting for some syntax problems as
------ signs in your example, and thereafter read it in as a data.frame.

b) without any printing at all, putting values directly into a data.frame
instead.  It depends on, what you actually are doing.


You should explain better, if I was completely missing the point.

Ott

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OK , many thanks that's a solution !
regards,christian


Am 20.06.2002 18:05:49, schrieb Ott Toomet <siim at obs.ee>:
>On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Christian Schulz wrote:
>
>  |Hi,
>  |is there a possibilty  to get my function output with "cat "
>  |as data.frame.rows with variables ?
>  |
>  |Var1---------------- 8 15 1 3
>  |Var2---------------- 0.170 0.319 0.0213 0.0638
>...
>
>It is unfortunately not quite clear to me what do you want.  I think if you
>want to get _output from cat()_ into a data frame, the only possibility is
>to save the region into a file and then read in as data frame (using
>read.table(... row.names=T).
>
>I would rather suggest to do it 
>
>a) automatically, using sink() to redirect the output to a file, and then
>reading the file in again, perhaps correcting for some syntax problems as
>------ signs in your example, and thereafter read it in as a data.frame.
>
>b) without any printing at all, putting values directly into a data.frame
>instead.  It depends on, what you actually are doing.
>
>
>You should explain better, if I was completely missing the point.
>
>Ott
>
>



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