| toString {base} | R Documentation |
Convert an R Object to a Character String
Description
This is a helper function for format to produce a single
character string describing an R object.
Usage
toString(x, ...)
## Default S3 method:
toString(x, width = NULL, ...)
Arguments
x |
The object to be converted. |
width |
Suggestion for the maximum field width. Values of
|
... |
Optional arguments passed to or from methods. |
Details
This is a generic function for which methods can be written: only the
default method is described here. Most methods should honor the
width argument to specify the maximum display width (as measured
by nchar(type = "width")) of the result.
The default method first converts x to character and then
concatenates the elements separated by ", ".
If width is supplied and is not NULL, the default method
returns the first width - 4 characters of the result with
.... appended, if the full result would use more than
width characters.
Value
A character vector of length 1 is returned.
Author(s)
Robert Gentleman
See Also
Examples
x <- c("a", "b", "aaaaaaaaaaa")
toString(x)
toString(x, width = 8)