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capture: Capture printed output of an R expression in a string

Description

Capture printed output of an R expression in a string

Usage

capture(expression, collapse = "")
sprint(x,...)
expression{R expression whose output will be captured.}
  collapse{Character used to join output lines.  Defaults to
    "\n".  Use NULL to return a vector of individual output lines.}
  x{Object to be printed}
  ...{Optional parameters to be passed to print }

The capture function uses sink to capture the
  printed results generated by expression. 
  The function sprint uses capture to redirect the
  results of calling print on an object to a string.

A character string, or if collapse==NULL a vector of character
  strings containing the printed output from the R expression.

WARNING
{R 1.7.0+ includes capture.output, which
  duplicates the functionality of capture.  Thus, capture
  is depreciated.}
[object Object]
texteval,
  capture.output
# capture the results of a loop
loop.text <- capture( for(i in 1:10) cat("i=",i,"") )
loop.text
# put regression summary results into a string
data(iris)
reg <- lm( Sepal.Length ~ Species, data=iris )
summary.text <- sprint( summary(reg) )
cat(summary.text)

print
IO

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