print not obeying quote=T argument

[MichaelChirico]

I'm testing output after trimming some whitespace from some character fields to make sure everything looks right; this exercise of course requires being able to detect whether whitespace still exists.

The default print method for data.tables does not allow this:

dt<-data.table(str=c("   yo  "))
print(dt,quote=T)
      str
1:    yo 

But this option is helpful for print.data.frame:

print.data.frame(dt,quote=T)
       str
1 "   yo "

The problem is print.data.frame immediately converts the object to a matrix before passing it to print.default -> .Internal(print.default(...)), which has no immediate port to data.tables due to the middle clipping.

[MichaelChirico]

@arunsrinivasan having looked over this again I think it's a feature request instead of a bug