| print.default {base} | R Documentation |
print.default is the default method of the generic
print function which prints its argument.
## Default S3 method:
print(x, digits = NULL, quote = TRUE, na.print = NULL,
print.gap = NULL, right = FALSE, ...)
x |
the object to be printed. |
digits |
a non-null value for digits specifies the minimum
number of significant digits to be printed in values. The default,
NULL, uses getOption(digits). (For the
intepretation for complex numbers see signif.) |
quote |
logical, indicating whether or not strings
(characters) should be printed with surrounding quotes. |
na.print |
a character string which is used to indicate
NA values in printed output, or NULL (see Details) |
print.gap |
a non-negative integer <= 1024,
giving the spacing between adjacent “columns” in printed
vectors, matrices and arrays, or NULL meaning 1. |
right |
logical, indicating whether or not strings should be right-aligned. The default is left-alignment. |
... |
further arguments to be passed to or from other methods. They are ignored in this function. |
The default for printing NAs is to print NA (without
quotes) unless this is a character NA and quote =
FALSE, when <NA> is printed.
The same number of decimal places is used throughout a vector, This
means that digits specifies the minimum number of significant
digits to be used, and that at least one entry will be encoded with
that minimum number. However, if all the encoded elements then have
trailing zeroes, the number of decimal places is reduced until at
least one element has a non-zero final digit.
Attributes are printed respecting their class(es), using the values of
digits to print.default, but using the default values
(for the methods called) of the other arguments.
When the methods package is attached, print will call
show for R objects with formal classes if called
with no optional arguments.
If a non-printable character is encountered during output, it is
represented as one of the ANSI escape sequences (\a, \b,
\f, \n, \r, \t, \v and \0),
or failing that as a 3-digit octal code: for example the UK currency
pound in the C locale (if implemented correctly) is printed as
\243. Which characters are non-printable depends on the locale.
In a Unicode (UTF-8) locale, characters 0x00 to 0x1F and
0x7f (the ASCII non-printing characters) are printed in the
same way, via ANSI escape sequences or 3-digit octal escapes.
Multi-byte non-printing characters are printed with as an escape
sequence of the form \uxxxx or \Uxxxxxxxx (in hexadecimal).
It is possible to have a character string in an object that is not
valid UTF-8. If a byte is encountered that is not part of an
encoded Unicode character it is printed in hex in the form <xx>
and the next character is tried.
The generic print, options.
The "noquote" class and print method.
pi print(pi, digits = 16) LETTERS[1:16] print(LETTERS, quote = FALSE)