R: Selectively Print Lines of a Text Vector

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## Selectively Print Lines of a Text Vector

### Description

Given one or two regular expressions or exact text matches, removes elements of the input vector that match these specifications. Omitted lines are replaced by .... This is useful for selectively suppressing some of the printed output of R functions such as regression fitting functions, especially in the context of making statistical reports using Sweave or Odfweave.

### Usage

    prselect(x, start = NULL, stop = NULL, i = 0, j = 0, pr = TRUE)

### Arguments

`x` | input character vector
`start` | text or regular expression to look for starting line to omit. If omitted, deletions start at the first line.
`stop` | text or regular expression to look for ending line to omit. If omitted, deletions proceed until the last line.
`i` | increment in number of first line to delete after match is found
`j` | increment in number of last line to delete after match is found
`pr` | set to `FALSE` to suppress printing

### Value

an invisible vector of retained lines of text

### Author(s)

Frank Harrell

### See Also

`Sweave`

### Examples

    x <- c('the','cat','ran','past','the','dog')
    prselect(x, 'big','bad')     # omit nothing- no match
    prselect(x, 'the','past')    # omit first 4 lines
    prselect(x,'the','junk')     # omit nothing- no match for stop
    prselect(x,'ran','dog')      # omit last 4 lines
    prselect(x,'cat')            # omit lines 2-
    prselect(x,'cat',i=1)        # omit lines 3-
    prselect(x,'cat','past')     # omit lines 2-4
    prselect(x,'cat','past',j=1) # omit lines 2-5
    prselect(x,'cat','past',j=-1)# omit lines 2-3
    prselect(x,'t$','dog')       # omit lines 2-6; t must be at end

    # Example for Sweave: run a regression analysis with the rms package
    # then selectively output only a portion of what print.ols prints.
    # (Thanks to \email{romain.francois@dbmail.com})
    # <<z,eval=FALSE,echo=T>>=
    # library(rms)
    # y <- rnorm(20); x1 <- rnorm(20); x2 <- rnorm(20)
    # ols(y ~ x1 + x2)
    # <<echo=F>>=
    # z <- capture.output( {
    # <<z>>
    #    } )
    # prselect(z, 'Residuals:') # keep only summary stats; or:
    # prselect(z, stop='Coefficients', j=-1)  # keep coefficients, rmse, R^2; or:
    # prselect(z, 'Coefficients', 'Residual standard error', j=-1) # omit coef
    # @

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