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Asked: 2026-05-23T05:23:07+00:00

this might look like a simple and basic question. I’ve been studying r for

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this might look like a simple and basic question.
I’ve been studying r for a couple of months now and it seems I cannot find a function I’m looking for. I don’t even know how to search it up…. out of search strings ideas.

I know there is a function to get the definition of a variable more than its contents. I explain myself…

> x <- c(4:6,5:9)
> x  # This will return the contents of x...  4,5,6,5,6,7,8,9.

> the.function.i.m.looking.for(x)  # would return:
> c(4:6,5:9)

Anyone remember that function?
Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    dput is what you are afer. From the help page: “Writes an ASCII text representation of an R object to a file or connection, or uses one to recreate the object.” 

    > x <- c(4:6,5:9)
dput(x)
c(4L, 5L, 6L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L)

> x2 <-  c(4L, 5L, 6L, 5L, 6L, 7L, 8L, 9L)
> all.equal(x, x2)
[1] TRUE
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