sprintf is working just fine. Your problem is the interpretation of
what the results are. Displaying the object will show the escape
characters, but if you use "cat", or output to a file, you will see
that the result is correct:
> cat( sprintf("a\nb"))
a
b>
> cat(sprintf("a\"bc\"d"))
a"bc"d>
>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Edwin Helbert Aponte Angarita
<helber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am having trouble with something that should be simple. I am unable
> to get sprintf using escape sequences:
>
>> sprintf("a\nb")
> [1] "a\nb"
>
>> sprintf("a\"bc\"d")
> [1] "a\"bc\"d"
>
> But it seems to need them any way:
>
>> sprintf("a\"bc"d")
> Error: unexpected symbol in "sprintf("a\"bc"d"
>
> Any suggestion on how to solve this issue?
>
> My R system:
>> version
> _
> platform x86_64-suse-linux-gnu
> arch x86_64
> os linux-gnu
> system x86_64, linux-gnu
> status
> major 2
> minor 15.0
> year 2012
> month 03
> day 30
> svn rev 58871
> language R
> version.string R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>
> Thanks.
>
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