On Mar 12, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Thomas Nyberg wrote: > Hello, > > I've found the following useful functionality: > >> s <- 'cola,colb\n1,2\n2,3\n' >> read.csv(text=s) > cola colb > 1 1 2 > 2 2 3 > > > But I haven't found a similar option in write.csv. I.e. I would like to > "write" a dataframe to a string.
A data.frame is a list structure. > What would be the easiest way to go > about such a thing? Right now I can only think of using a file as an > intermediary, but that seems a bit silly. Thanks for any help. I think you are misunderstanding the structure of a computer file. `write.csv` is already doing essentially what you request. "Files" are essentially "strings" of varying sizes. The operating system print methods are displaying the linefeed/carriage in a manner that breaks the string into useful or readable segments on a "page". If you want to have a text version of what the print.data.frame function returns, then wrap capture.output around print(dfrm). That will produce a character object. --\n David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
