That's the ticket! So many functions…so little time. Thanks to everyone. On Nov 18, 2013, at 9:47 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Ira Fuchs wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried dput and it did not produce what >> sendmailR requires for the body parameter. Here is a simplified version of >> what I need to do: >> >>> x=matrix(c(1,2,3),1,3) >>> x >> [,1] [,2] [,3] >> [1,] 1 2 3 >>> colnames(x)=c("a","b","c") >>> x >> a b c >> [1,] 1 2 3 >> >>> dput(x) >> structure(c(1, 2, 3), .Dim = c(1L, 3L), .Dimnames = list(NULL, >> c("a", "b", "c"))) >> >> I want to send x in sendmailR(to,from,x) and have it look more or less like >> the output above. Simple, right? > > After this at the console: > > sink("myfile.txt") > > x=matrix(c(1,2,3),1,3) > > x > > colnames(x)=c("a","b","c") > > x > > sink() > > I get this in myfile.txt: > > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 1 2 3 > a b c > [1,] 1 2 3 > > There is also a capture.output function. > > -- > David > >> >> >> On Nov 18, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote: >> >>> What about dput()? >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Ira Fuchs <irafu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I have a matrix which has colnames and I would like to send this matrix >>>> using sendmailR. How can I convert this simple matrix to a format which >>>> can be used as the body variable in sendmailR? I see how I can create a >>>> file attachment using mime_part but I would like to send the matrix in the >>>> body of the email. >>>> >>>> The matrix looks like: >>>> >>>> ABD DEF GHI JKL MNO TOT >>>> [1,] 0.44 0.81 1.67 0.37 0.31 -1.18 >>>> >>>> >>>> All the conversions I have tried end up sending the matrix without the >>>> colnames. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > David Winsemius, MD > Alameda, CA, USA > ______________________________________________ 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.