thanks, jeff. no, not capture.output(), but thanks for pointing me to it (I did not know it). capture.output flattens the data frame. I want the print.data.frame output, so that I can feed it to cat, and get reasonable newlines, too.
regards, /iaw ---- Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@gmail.com) J. Fred Weston Professor of Finance Anderson School at UCLA, C519 http://www.ivo-welch.info/ Editor, Critical Finance Review, http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote: > 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:<jdnew...@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.we...@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.we...@gmail.com) > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > >______________________________________________ > >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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
