A short annotation: I already considered deparsing the object via deparse(x), but that's not exactly the info I'd like. I'm only interested in a short summary like str() would give me, not in the deparsed object.
Thx, Janko ########## SYSTEM INFO ########## Windows XP SP3 R 2.12.0 (patched as of 2010-11-22) Eclipse 3.6.1 (Helios) StatET 0.9.x ############################### > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > Im Auftrag von Janko Thyson > Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. November 2010 20:32 > An: r-h...@r-project. org > Betreff: [R] Possible to pretty-printing using str()? > > Dear list, > > I'm looking for a suitable way to sort of "one-line-pretty-print" an > arbitrary R object in some of my log outputs. > > Consider this: > > cat(paste("The object/value is: ", x, ".", sep=""), sep="\n") > > No problem if x is of class: > - character (length=1) > - numeric (length=1) > - logical (length=1) > > For lengths > 1 I can get around by paste(x, collapse=my.delimiter). > So: > > cat(paste("The object/value is: ", paste(x, collapse=my.delimiter), > ".", > sep=""), sep="\n") > > "Problem" if x is of class > - data.frame > - matrix > - list > - other complex objects > > For those objects something like the output of str() arranged in one > line of > class 'character' would be great. > > Is that possible somehow? > > Thanks for any comments, > Janko > > ########## SYSTEM INFO ########## > Windows XP SP3 > R 2.12.0 (patched as of 2010-11-22) > Eclipse 3.6.1 (Helios) > StatET 0.9.x > ############################### > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
