to_yamlet.character: Coerce Character to Yamlet Storage Format

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Coerce Character to Yamlet Storage Format

Description

Coerces character to yamlet storage format. Named character is processed as a named list. NA_character_ is is stored as unquoted NA and read back as NA by as_yam.character. Use quoted "NA" or 'NA' to store the literal string, which will be read back as a string by as_yam.character.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
to_yamlet(x, block = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	character
block	whether to write block scalars
...	ignored

Details

If block is TRUE, an attempt will be made to represent character strings as literal block scalars if they contain newlines (experimental in yamlet >= 0.8).

Value

length-one character, never NA, no names

See Also

Other to_yamlet: to_yamlet.NULL(), to_yamlet.default(), to_yamlet.list(), to_yamlet.numeric(), to_yamlet.yamlet(), to_yamlet()

Examples

to_yamlet('foo')
to_yamlet(c('a','b'))
to_yamlet(c(a = 'a',b = 'b'))
to_yamlet(c(no = 'n', yes = 'y'))
to_yamlet(NA)
to_yamlet("NA")

yamlet documentation built on Oct. 6, 2023, 9:07 a.m.