Exact, "efficiency", I didn't see that. Thank you very much. 2010/8/26 Gavin Simpson <gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk>: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:42 +0200, David Hajage wrote: >> Hello useRs and guRus, >> >> I was trying to add the support of str() in the ascii package, and I >> realized that str() does not have a print method. It uses cat() from inside >> the function and returns nothing. >> >> Since it is not usual in R, I wonder why? Is there a particular reason? > > The Value section of ?str has a (the?) reason. Efficiency. > > str is an S3 generic though, so you can write your own methods for it. > > HTH > > G > >> Thank you very much for your attention on... well, this unimportant >> question. >> >> david >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 > ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 > Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk > Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ > UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > >
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