Thanks for a good tip. Dr Oleg Sklyar Technology Group Man Investments Ltd +44 (0)20 7144 3803 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 August 2008 13:29 > To: Sklyar, Oleg (London) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] showMethods("plot", printTo=FALSE) fails if > printTo set to FALSE > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Sklyar, Oleg (London) wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > any idea why showMethods fails with the following error > when printTo is > > set to false, i.e. to return the output as a character > vector. It works > > fine if printTo is left default as seen below. The behaviour is > > consistent for any method I tried. stdin() generally works > fine on this > > system, at least when checked with: x = readLines(). > > > > Thanks, > > Oleg > > > >> x = showMethods("plot", printTo=FALSE) > > Error in cat(file = printTo, sep = "", ...) : > > cannot switch output to stdin > > This has coerced FALSE to 0, which is connection stdin(). You cannot > write to stdin. > > I see no sign that printTo = FALSE has been implemented. You > could use a > text connection, e.g. > > con <- textConnection(NULL, open="w") > x <- showMethods("plot", printTo=con) > textConnectionValue(con) > close(con) > > > > > Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit > > > > 1: showMethods("plot", printTo = FALSE) > > 2: .showMethodsTable(fdef, includeDefs, inherited, classes > = classes, > > showEmpt > > 3: doFun(f, p) > > 4: cf("Function: ", func, " (package ", pkg, ")\n") > > 5: cat(file = printTo, sep = "", ...) > > > > Selection: 0 > >> x = showMethods("plot") > > Function: plot (package graphics) > > x="ANY", y="ANY" > > x="SimResults", y="SimResults" > > x="SimResults", y="missing" > > x="TimeDateBase", y="character" > > x="TimeDateBase", y="data.frameOrMatrix" > > x="TimeDateBase", y="missing" > > x="TimeSeries", y="missing" > > > >> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-08-05 r46234) > > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > > > locale: > > C > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] datasets splines utils stats graphics > grDevices methods > > > > [8] base > > > > other attached packages: > > > > ## 64bit RHEL 5 > > > > > > Dr Oleg Sklyar > > Technology Group > > Man Investments Ltd > > +44 (0)20 7144 3803 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > The contents of this email are for the named > addressee(s...{{dropped:22}} > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ********************************************************************** The contents of this email are for the named addressee(s...{{dropped:22}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
