Kevin, The habitués of this mailing list get irritated when users mail in problem reports which don't include enough information to reproduce the problem, as requested in the standard footer of r-help mail ("PLEASE ... provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.") This irritation is sometimes expressed aggressively and sometimes humorously. Be thankful that you drew "humorously".
So... please provide minimal, self-contained code that allows us to reproduce your problem. What is meant by "self-contained"? It is code that if you type it in to a fresh R, elicits your problem. This includes setting any necessary variables to appropriate values etc. -s On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, <rkevinbur...@charter.net> wrote: > > So then I am to assume that the output of 'cat' can be truncated by passing > it "bad" arrays. That is the only difference between the "reproducible" code > you show and mine. It is just a theory but say that the components array is > not dimmensioned for 4 elements. It seems a little strange if that is the > case that a reference error is not thrown and just the output of the cat call > is affected. > > Kevin > > ---- Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > > On 7/15/2009 9:53 AM, rkevinbur...@charter.net wrote: > > > I have a statement: > > > > > > cat("myforecast ETS(", paste(object$components[1], > > > object$components[2], object$components[3], object$components[4], sep = > > > ","), ") ", n, "\n") > > > > > > That generates: > > > > > > cast ETS( A,N,N,FALSE ) 3 > > > > > > Anyone guess as to why the first 5 letters are truncated/missing? > > > > You are probably being punished for posting non-reproducible code*. > > > > When I try a reproducible version of the line above, things look fine: > > > > > cat("myforecast ETS(", paste("A","N","N",FALSE, sep = ","), ") ", 3, > > "\n") > > myforecast ETS( A,N,N,FALSE ) 3 > > > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > * R has a new predictive punishment module. It punishes you for things > > it knows you will do later. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.