dear R experts---is there a function that prints a data frame to a string? cat() cannot handle lists, so I cannot write cat("your data frame is:\n", df, "\n"). regards, /iaw ---- Ivo Welch (ivo.welch@gmail.com) [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
What do you mean by prints? You can use capture.output to get what would regularly be printed to the screen into a text vector, or use dput to get a version of an object that could be read back into another R session. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:10 PM, ivo welch <ivo.welch at gmail.com> wrote:> dear R experts---is there a function that prints a data frame to a string? > ?cat() cannot handle lists, so I cannot write cat("your data frame is:\n", > df, "\n"). > > regards, /iaw > ---- > Ivo Welch (ivo.welch at gmail.com) > > ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538280 at gmail.com
capture.output(print(mydf)) note that df is a base function... best to not use it as a variable. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ivo welch <ivo.welch at gmail.com> wrote:>dear R experts---is there a function that prints a data frame to a >string? >cat() cannot handle lists, so I cannot write cat("your data frame >is:\n", >df, "\n"). > >regards, /iaw >---- >Ivo Welch (ivo.welch at gmail.com) > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.