I occasionally find that it would be useful to get the printed representation of an R object as a character string, like Python's `repr` function or Lisp's `prin1-to-string`. Does such a function exist in R? I don't need it to work on complicated or weird objects, just simple vectors and lists.

Edit: I want the string that I would have to type into the console to generate an identical object, not the output of `print(object)`.