[R] R equivalent of Python str()?

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 01:15:21 CET 2012


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2012/2/7 Ernest Adrogué <nfdisco at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there's a function in R that is meant to return a
> string representation of an object. Basically, it's like print() but
> it doesn't print anything, it only returns a string.
>
> I know there's a str() function but it's not quite the same. I mean a
> function that returns the same string that print() would display.
>
> --
> Bye,
> Ernest
>
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