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As R's sprintf is a wrapper for the
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As R's sprintf is a wrapper for the OS's sprintf, misuse does run the risk
of crashing from OS, and when it does the error will come from the
implementation of sprintf (which for R for Windows is the Trio library).
One could argue that the OS service should not segfault on incorrect
input, but t
