.print.via.format {tools} | R Documentation

## Printing Utilities

### Description

`.print.via.format` is a “prototype” `print()` method, useful, at least as a start, by a simple

        print.<myS3class>  <-  .print.via.format

### Usage

    .print.via.format(x, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | object to be printed.
`...` | optional further arguments, passed to `format`.

### Value

`x`, invisibly (by `invisible()`), as `print` methods should.

### See Also

The `print` generic; its default method `print.default` (used for many basic implicit classes such as `"numeric"`, `"character"` and `array`s of them, `list`s etc).

### Examples

    ## The function is simply defined as
     function (x, ...) {
        writeLines(format(x, ...))
        invisible(x)
     }

    ## is used for simple print methods in R, and as prototype for new methods.

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