Capture the output of cli functions instead of printing it — cli_fmt • cli

Capture the output of cli functions instead of printing it

cli_fmt(expr, collapse = FALSE, strip_newline = FALSE)

Arguments

expr: Expression to evaluate, containing cli_*() calls, typically.
collapse: Whether to collapse the output into a single character scalar, or return a character vector with one element for each line.
strip_newline: Whether to strip the trailing newline.

Examples

cli_fmt({
  cli_alert_info("Loading data file")
  cli_alert_success("Loaded data file")
})
#> [1] "\033[36mℹ\033[39m Loading data file" "\033[32m✔\033[39m Loaded data file"