toString {base}R Documentation

toString Converts its Argument to a Character String

Description

This is a helper function for format. It converts its argument to a string. If the argument is a vector then its elements are concatenated with a , as a separator. Most methods should honor the width argument. The minimum value for width is six.

Usage

toString(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
toString(x, width, ...)

Arguments

x The object to be converted.
width The returned value is at most the first width characters.
... Optional arguments for methods.

Value

A character vector of length 1 is returned.

Author(s)

Robert Gentleman

See Also

format

Examples

x <- c("a", "b", "aaaaaaaaaaa")
toString(x)
toString(x, width=8)
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