Sending a matrix in an email

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried dput and it did not produce  
what sendmailR requires for the body parameter. Here is a simplified  
version of what I need to do:

x=matrix(c(1,2,3),1,3)
x
    [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    2    3
colnames(x)=c("a","b","c")
x
    a b c
[1,] 1 2 3

dput(x)
structure(c(1, 2, 3), .Dim = c(1L, 3L), .Dimnames = list(NULL,
   c("a", "b", "c")))

I want to send x in sendmailR(to,from,x) and have it look more or  
less like the output above. Simple, right?
After this at the console:

sink("myfile.txt")
 > x=matrix(c(1,2,3),1,3)
 > x
 > colnames(x)=c("a","b","c")
 > x
 > sink()

I get this in myfile.txt:

      [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    2    3
      a b c
[1,] 1 2 3

There is also a capture.output function.
David

>
>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>
>> What about dput()?
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Ira Fuchs <irafuchs at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> I have a matrix which has colnames and I would like to send this  
>>> matrix using sendmailR. How can I convert this simple matrix to a  
>>> format which can be used as the body variable in sendmailR? I see  
>>> how I can create a file attachment using mime_part but I would  
>>> like to send the matrix in the body of the email.
>>>
>>> The matrix looks like:
>>>
>>>     ABD  DEF  GHI  JKL MNO   TOT
>>> [1,] 0.44 0.81 1.67 0.37 0.31 -1.18
>>>
>>>
>>> All the conversions I have tried end up sending the matrix without  
>>> the colnames.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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Sending a matrix in an email

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