Peter Thank you for the information. I accidentally deleted Ken's post without having read it. Ken' s thought is great but as you said awful to implement I thought that capture.output would come in handy some time when I first saw it on an unrelated reply.
Just thought :- the latex listings package may have alternatives If I remember correctly it has wrapping and other goodies but I when I started to investigate it a while ago I somehow came up with a non-compilable tex file. I needed help from someone with more latex experience to progress Duncan At 10:12 20/08/2009, you wrote: >Ken > >Thanks for your inspiration: This combination of strwrap and writeLines >seems to "work" in one sense of the word: > > > ># Intro stuff: >wid <- 50 >option(width=wid) >hide <- capture.output(example(glm)) > ># The business end: >writeLines( strwrap( capture.output(summary(glm.D93)), wid)) > > > >Mind you, while it "works", it's an awful construct. I was actually >hoping to show this code in my book: > summary(glm.D93) >and get the nice output appearing in my book. I don't plan on replacing >the simple code above with > writeLines( strwrap( capture.output(summary(glm.D93)), wid)) >in the text of the book. Maybe I can redefine print.summary.glm or >something (I've done that for the output of anova.glm and anova.lm: >Shh! Don't tell anyone!). > >Thanks for your assistance Ken. All the best in deep Basque country. > >P. > >Peter Dunn: Biostatistician >School of Health and Sport Science >Faculty of Science, Health and Education ML-34 >University of the Sunshine Coast, Locked Bag 4 >Maroochydore DC Qld 4558 > >Tel: +61 7 5456 5085 >Fax: +61 7 5430 2896 >Email: <mailto:pdu...@usc.edu.au>pdu...@usc.edu.au >www.usc.edu.au > > > >>> Ken Knoblauch <ken.knobla...@inserm.fr> 19/08/2009 7:56 pm >>> >perhaps, strtrim > >-- >Ken Knoblauch >Inserm U846 >Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute >Department of Integrative Neurosciences >18 avenue du Doyen Lépine >69500 Bron >France >tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77 >fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61 >portable: +33 (0)6 84 10 64 10 ><http://www.sbri.fr/members/kenneth-knoblauch.html>http://www.sbri.fr/members/kenneth-knoblauch.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > > >CRICOS Provider Number: 01595D > >This communication is intended for the recipient only and should not be >forwarded, distributed or otherwise read by others without express >permission. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily those of >the University of the Sunshine Coast. > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by <http://www.mailscanner.info/>MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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