R help - Aug 2010 - print method for str?

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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:42 AM, David Hajage <dhajage.r at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello useRs and guRus,
>
> I was trying to add the support of str() in the ascii package, and I
> realized that str() does not have a print method. It uses cat() from inside
> the function and returns nothing.
>
> Since it is not usual in R, I wonder why? Is there a particular reason?
>
> Thank you very much for your attention on... well, this unimportant
> question.
>
It still dispatches to S3 methods though.  See str.zoo in the zoo
package as an example.

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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:42 +0200, David Hajage wrote:
> Hello useRs and guRus,
> 
> I was trying to add the support of str() in the ascii package, and I
> realized that str() does not have a print method. It uses cat() from inside
> the function and returns nothing.
> 
> Since it is not usual in R, I wonder why? Is there a particular reason?
The Value section of ?str has a (the?) reason. Efficiency.

str is an S3 generic though, so you can write your own methods for it.

HTH

G
> Thank you very much for your attention on... well, this unimportant
> question.
> 
> david
> 
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