On 25 Jan 2012, at 11:54, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I think the documentation for cat is a little ambiguous, but it is working as
> documented if I read "If any element of sep contains a newline character," to
> mean that the element consists of a newline and nothing else. I'm not sure
> if that was the intended reading or not.
I don't know about the reading, but if memory serves me well, once upon a time
cat would not automatically go to a newline, i.e.
cat(1, file = '')
1 >
so I'd have to explictly set the newline as a separator:
cat(1, file= '', sep = '\n')
1
>
Though I admit my memory could be wrong. Thank you for the solution btw.
BW
Federico
>
>>
>> How would I overcome this issue? I tried a number of things, all of which
>> have failed.
>>
>
> I'd use sprintf for that, i.e. something like
>
> count <- c(3, 17, 15)
> pct <- c(20, 30, 31)
> cat(sprintf("%d (%d%%)\n", count, pct), sep="")
>
> where count and pct are the vectors of values to go into the display.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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