[R] cat output To data.frame.rows ?

[Ott Toomet]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Christian Schulz wrote:

  |Hi,
  |is there a possibilty  to get my function output with "cat "
  |as data.frame.rows with variables ?
  |
  |Var1---------------- 8 15 1 3
  |Var2---------------- 0.170 0.319 0.0213 0.0638
...

It is unfortunately not quite clear to me what do you want.  I think if you
want to get _output from cat()_ into a data frame, the only possibility is
to save the region into a file and then read in as data frame (using
read.table(... row.names=T).

I would rather suggest to do it 

a) automatically, using sink() to redirect the output to a file, and then
reading the file in again, perhaps correcting for some syntax problems as
------ signs in your example, and thereafter read it in as a data.frame.

b) without any printing at all, putting values directly into a data.frame
instead.  It depends on, what you actually are doing.


You should explain better, if I was completely missing the point.

Ott

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