Recursively applies base::as.character() to its inputs.
Arguments
- ...
R objects to be converted to a character vector. Dynamic dots are supported.
- use_names
Whether or not to preserve names by
base::unlist().
See also
Other string functions:
as_comment_str(),
as_line_feed_chr(),
as_str(),
capitalize_first(),
dsv_colnames(),
enum_str(),
escape_lf(),
fuse_regex(),
prettify_nr(),
sentenceify(),
wrap_chr()
Examples
library(magrittr)
to_convert <-
list(tibble::tibble(a = 1:3), "A", factor("wonderful"), xfun::strict_list("day")) %T>%
print()
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 3 × 1
#> a
#> <int>
#> 1 1
#> 2 2
#> 3 3
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "A"
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [1] wonderful
#> Levels: wonderful
#>
#> [[4]]
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "day"
#>
#>
as.character(to_convert)
#> [1] "list(a = 1:3)" "A" "1" "list(\"day\")"
pal::as_chr(!!!to_convert)
#> [1] "1" "2" "3" "A" "wonderful" "day"