make stat.desc output an object

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On 28-05-2013, at 19:31, bcrombie <bcrombie at utk.edu> wrote:

How do I assign a variable to R output that is generated by default functions such as:
stat.desc(mydata, basic=TRUE, desc=TRUE, norm=FALSE, p=0.90)
summary(mydata)
Another way to put it:  how can I turn an R function result into an object?

?capture.output

Unless I misunderstand, I don't think so. This just captures printed
output as a character vector. To capture the "result" of a call as an
object, just assign it:

result <- summary(mydata).

However, and again if I have not misunderstood, I believe the query
indicates the OP has not done his/her homework by reading a basic R
tutorial, like An Introduction to R and does not understand that most
R functions already return summary objects that are automatically
printed by the relevant print method.

-- Bert

Berend

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