Capture output of data

Question

I want to capture the output from the data function in which you supply a package name and the function produces a static output. I want to turn this into a dataframe.

Currently the following gives the static output:

data(package = "ggplot2")

I'd like it to be as a dataframe and actually never have the external static output produced.

diamonds                Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds
economics               US economic time series.
midwest                 Midwest demographics.
movies                  Movie information and user ratings from IMDB.com.
mpg                     Fuel economy data from 1999 and 2008 for 38 popular models of car
msleep                  An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset.
presidential            Terms of 10 presidents from Eisenhower to Bush W.
seals                   Vector field of seal movements.

Answer 1

Is this enough to get you started?

> data(package = "ggplot2")$results
     Package   LibPath                  Item          
[1,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "diamonds"    
[2,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "economics"   
[3,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "midwest"     
[4,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "movies"      
[5,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "mpg"         
[6,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "msleep"      
[7,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "presidential"
[8,] "ggplot2" "/home/mrdwab/R/library" "seals"       
     Title                                                              
[1,] "Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds"                              
[2,] "US economic time series."                                         
[3,] "Midwest demographics."                                            
[4,] "Movie information and user ratings from IMDB.com."                
[5,] "Fuel economy data from 1999 and 2008 for 38 popular models of car"
[6,] "An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset."    
[7,] "Terms of 10 presidents from Eisenhower to Bush W."                
[8,] "Vector field of seal movements."    

Obviously, to get a data.frame of just the "Item" and "Title" data, you can use:

> data.frame(data(package = "ggplot2")$results)[-c(1, 2)]
          Item                                                             Title
1     diamonds                               Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds
2    economics                                          US economic time series.
3      midwest                                             Midwest demographics.
4       movies                 Movie information and user ratings from IMDB.com.
5          mpg Fuel economy data from 1999 and 2008 for 38 popular models of car
6       msleep     An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset.
7 presidential                 Terms of 10 presidents from Eisenhower to Bush W.
8        seals                                   Vector field of seal movements.