rdput

How to put the output of `dput` in one line in R?

How to make the output of dput be displayed in one line in R?

How to copy to the clipboard the string obtained with dput?

Solution

  • Take dat <- head(iris) for example:

    1. Make one-line output for dput() displayed in the console:
    cat(capture.output(dput(dat)), "\n", sep = "")

    Output:

    structure(list(Sepal.Length = c(5.1, 4.9, 4.7, 4.6, 5, 5.4),     Sepal.Width = c(3.5, 3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.6, 3.9), Petal.Length = c(1.4,     1.4, 1.3, 1.5, 1.4, 1.7), Petal.Width = c(0.2, 0.2, 0.2,     0.2, 0.2, 0.4), Species = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,     1L), levels = c("setosa", "versicolor", "virginica"), class = "factor")), row.names = c(NA, 6L), class = "data.frame")
    1. Copy to the clipboard (Windows only):
    writeClipboard(paste(capture.output(dput(dat)), collapse = ""))