R help - May 2012 - Avoid text wrapping of output in R console

Hello!

I am working on a statistical package called VOStat 
(http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/VOStat.html) which uses a Java based GUI 
to input data and parameters from the user. Based on the inputs, an 
appropriate R script is generated and executed in the R console. As an 
example, consider the output to be a data frame. This data frame is 
printed in a well formatted way in the R console but the formatting is 
lost when the output is captured in a text file, which is later printed 
as output by the VOStat GUI. I have ways to format the output using Java 
by displaying it in a tabular form with grid lines. But I am facing 
problems in doing so when the R output is truncated to a new line, for 
instance when the number of columns is large. A trivial example is 
mentioned below:-

new_df<- data.frame("League Position"=1,
"Team"="Manchester City", "Games played"=38,
"Games won"=28, "Games drawn"=5, "Games lost"=5,
"Goals scored"=93, "Goals conceded"=29, "Goal
difference"=64, "Points"=89)

print(new_df, row.names=FALSE)
  League.Position                        Team Games.played Games.won Games.drawn
Games.lost Goals.scored
                           1    Manchester City                     38          
28                        5                 5                   93
  Goals.conceded Goal.difference Points
                         29                       64     89



So my question is whether there is a way to prevent R from wrapping the 
output so that all columns of a row can displayed in a single line in 
the console or should I start thinking of alternate ways to do the 
formatting?

Many thanks for your help.

Regards
Tejas Kale
IUCAA, Pune


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On 2012-05-28 08:12, Tejas Kale wrote:
> So my question is whether there is a way to prevent R from wrapping the 
> output so that all columns of a row can displayed in a single line in 
> the console or should I start thinking of alternate ways to do the 
> formatting?
This should do:
options(width=10000)

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Best regards,
Krzysztof Mitko