R help - Jan 2006 - line numbers

I am using the sink function to save several results (i.e. values of many
different variables) to an output file.  However, the output looks unattractive
because it displays line numbers next to each new variable, it is difficult to
remove the R variable name from the output, and I cannot print test without it
using quotation marks.  The only way I have found around most of these issues is
to create a data.frame such as:
 
data.frame("Minimum
BMD"=c(minimumBMD,minimumBMD.time,paste(100*(1-Climit.level),"%"),

minimumBMD.ConfidenceLimit,

if(CI.2sided)paste(minimumBMD.ConfidenceLimit.upper),paste(100*alpha.BMR,"%")),

row.names=c("Minimum BMD",time.name,"Confidence
Level","BMDL (Lower Conf. Limit)",

if(CI.2sided)paste("BMDU (Upper Conf. Limit)"),"BMR Level"))

However, the output will look like:
                                Minimum.BMD
Minimum BMD              0.0280273960783465
Test Time                             28.56
Confidence Level                       95 %
BMDL (Lower Conf. Limit) 0.0178262627224170
BMR Level                               5 %
 
and I would rather not have the words "Minimum.BMD" in there at all. 
Plus I would like to add addition lines of text and other values.  Is there a
way I can format the output attractively?  I know this must be possible because
many functions (e.g. summary(lm(y~x))) will display output nicely and include
text.
 
Thank you for your time.  If you would like to e-mail me directly, my e-mail
address is wpogoda@coba.usf.edu.

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Check out ?sprintf, ?cat, ?noquote, ?format, ?formatC, ?print.

Also maybe ?sub, ?gsub, ?chartr, ?grep.

To view the code that prints summary(lm(...whatever...)), put this on
a line by itself:

  stats:::print.summary.lm

The summary statement mentioned above outputs an object of
class "summary.lm" and the S3 method to print summary.lm
objects is called print.summary.lm and that is contained in the
stats namespace.

On 1/29/06, Pogoda, Wendy <wpogoda at coba.usf.edu>
wrote:
> I am using the sink function to save several results (i.e. values of many
different variables) to an output file.  However, the output looks unattractive
because it displays line numbers next to each new variable, it is difficult to
remove the R variable name from the output, and I cannot print test without it
using quotation marks.  The only way I have found around most of these issues is
to create a data.frame such as:
>
> data.frame("Minimum
BMD"=c(minimumBMD,minimumBMD.time,paste(100*(1-Climit.level),"%"),
>
> minimumBMD.ConfidenceLimit,
>
>
if(CI.2sided)paste(minimumBMD.ConfidenceLimit.upper),paste(100*alpha.BMR,"%")),
>
> row.names=c("Minimum BMD",time.name,"Confidence
Level","BMDL (Lower Conf. Limit)",
>
> if(CI.2sided)paste("BMDU (Upper Conf. Limit)"),"BMR
Level"))
>
> However, the output will look like:
>                                Minimum.BMD
> Minimum BMD              0.0280273960783465
> Test Time                             28.56
> Confidence Level                       95 %
> BMDL (Lower Conf. Limit) 0.0178262627224170
> BMR Level                               5 %
>
> and I would rather not have the words "Minimum.BMD" in there at
all.  Plus I would like to add addition lines of text and other values.  Is
there a way I can format the output attractively?  I know this must be possible
because many functions (e.g. summary(lm(y~x))) will display output nicely and
include text.
>
> Thank you for your time.  If you would like to e-mail me directly, my
e-mail address is wpogoda at coba.usf.edu.
>
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