How to assign output of cat to an object?

Question

How would it be possible in the example below to skip the step of writing to file \"test.txt\", i.e. assign the cat-result to an object, and still achieve the same end resul

Answer 1

Try

> f <- textConnection("test3", "w")
> cat(test, "\n", file=f)
> test3
[1] "V 1 x 1 2 3 y 3 5 8 V 2 x y V 3 y 7 2 1 V 4 x 9 3 7 y "
> close(f)