Dear Tomas,Thank you.Regarding the "unnumbered" arguments, i.e. sprintf('%f
%f', 1, 2, 3). This was the case I wanted to report, here a warning can be very
useful.Regarding the "numbered" arguments, that is, sprintf('%$1f %$3f', 1, 2,
3). Here, omission of an argument might be intended, for example, in an
application with support for multiple languages. Therefore, I am wondering if a
warning should be raised.Regarding the mixture: never heard that this works,
and I would probably not want to use it...Your work is much appreciated, thanks
again.Best regards,Matthias
-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------Von: Tomas Kalibera
<[email protected]> Datum: 04.11.20 15:43 (GMT+01:00) An: Matthias
Gondan <[email protected]>, [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Rd]
sprintf, check number of parameters Dear Matthias,thanks for the suggestion,
R-devel now warns on unused arguments by format (both numbered and
un-numbered). It seems that the new warning is useful, often it finds cases
when arguments were accidentally passed to sprintf but had been meant for a
different function.R allows combining both numbered and un-numbered references
in a single format, even though it may be better to avoid and POSIX does not
allow that.BestTomasOn 9/20/20 1:03 PM, Matthias Gondan wrote:> Dear R
developers,>> I am wondering if this should raise an error or a warning.>>>
sprintf('%.f, %.f', 1, 2, 3)> [1] "1, 2">> I am aware that R has „numbered“
sprintf arguments (sprintf('%1$.f', …), and in that case, omissing of specific
arguments may be intended. But in the usual syntax, omission of an argument is
probably a mistake.>> Thank you for your consideration.>> Best wishes,>>
Matthias>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]>>
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