R help - Apr 2010 - str: how to use "no list" recursively?

Hi,

In the help file for str(), the following line appears: "no.list	 logical;
if true, no ?list of ...? nor the class are printed".  However, that
appears
to be true only on the top level; setting no.list to TRUE still leaves the
remaining levels with the `list of ...' statement intact:
> x <- list(
+ 	a = list(list()),
+ 	b = list(list())
+ );
> str(x)
List of 2
 $ a:List of 1
  ..$ : list()
 $ b:List of 1
  ..$ : list()
> str(x, no.list = TRUE)
 $ a:List of 1
  ..$ : list()
 $ b:List of 1
  ..$ : list()
> 
For readability reasons, I'd like to keep the indented $ signs and the names
of the sub-lists but suppress printing of `List of ...'.  Is that possible?

Thanks,
Jeff
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Try this:

cat(gsub(":List of .*", "", capture.output(str(x, no.list =
TRUE))), sep = '\n')

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Jeff Brown <dopethatwantscash at
yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In the help file for str(), the following line appears: "no.list ? ? ?
? logical;
> if true, no ?list of ...? nor the class are printed". ?However, that
appears
> to be true only on the top level; setting no.list to TRUE still leaves the
> remaining levels with the `list of ...' statement intact:
>
>> x <- list(
> + ? ? ? a = list(list()),
> + ? ? ? b = list(list())
> + );
>> str(x)
> List of 2
> ?$ a:List of 1
> ?..$ : list()
> ?$ b:List of 1
> ?..$ : list()
>> str(x, no.list = TRUE)
> ?$ a:List of 1
> ?..$ : list()
> ?$ b:List of 1
> ?..$ : list()
>>
>
> For readability reasons, I'd like to keep the indented $ signs and the
names
> of the sub-lists but suppress printing of `List of ...'. ?Is that
possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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