R help - Mar 2005 - pretty print of summary

Dear R-users,

using the interactive mode, the command
 > summary(my.survreg.object)
will output details of the object my.survreg.object in a very neat 
fashion.

I would like to have that sent to a file, in ascii format, as it 
appears within the interactive mode.
Is that possible ?

This seems like a very simple task, but i haven't found the solution:
- print doesn't care about a file option
- save(my.surreg.object,file="tmp",ascii=T) almost does it but puts 
every word on its own line,
so "tmp" contains a very long column of words.
- dump will output the structure of the object so it can be loaded back.
- write is suited for matrices of data, not arbitrary objects.
Something else i should look at ?

Thanks,
Chuck

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Charles Dugas, Ph.D., A.S.A.
Professeur adjoint,
D?partement de Math?matiques et Statistique
Universit? de Montr?al
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On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 22:49 -0500, Charles Dugas wrote:
> Dear R-users,
> 
> using the interactive mode, the command
>  > summary(my.survreg.object)
> will output details of the object my.survreg.object in a very neat 
> fashion.
> 
> I would like to have that sent to a file, in ascii format, as it 
> appears within the interactive mode.
> Is that possible ?
> 
> This seems like a very simple task, but i haven't found the solution:
> - print doesn't care about a file option
> - save(my.surreg.object,file="tmp",ascii=T) almost does it but
puts
> every word on its own line,
> so "tmp" contains a very long column of words.
> - dump will output the structure of the object so it can be loaded back.
> - write is suited for matrices of data, not arbitrary objects.
> Something else i should look at ?

See either ?capture.output or ?sink

HTH,

Marc Schwartz