print.data.frame to string?

Thu, May 31, 2012 2:53 PM

It will work if you paste a "\n" to the end of each line:

a <- data.frame(x=runif(4), y=runif(4), z=runif(4))
b <- capture.output(a)
c <- paste(b, "\n", sep="")
cat("Your data set is:\n", c, "\n")

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To: Jeff Newmiller
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Subject: Re: [R] print.data.frame to string?

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
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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
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote:

capture.output(print(mydf))

note that df is a base function... best to not use it as a variable.
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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
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