\name{.print.via.format} \alias{.print.via.format} \title{Printing Utilities} \description{ \code{.print.via.format} is a \dQuote{prototype} \code{\link{print}()} method, useful, at least as a start, by a simple \preformatted{ print. <- .print.via.format} } \usage{ .print.via.format(x, ...) } \arguments{ \item{x}{object to be printed.} \item{\dots}{optional further arguments, passed to \code{\link{format}}.} } \value{\code{x}, invisibly (by \code{\link{invisible}()}), as \code{\link{print}} methods should. } \seealso{ The \code{\link{print}} generic; its default method \code{\link{print.default}} (used for many basic implicit classes such as \code{"numeric"}, \code{"character"} and \code{\link{array}}s of them, \code{\link{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. } \keyword{utilities}