Wolfgang Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Personally, I would prefer the recycling, but of course it can be also
> done this way:
>
> > mapply(sprintf, "%04d %s", 1:3, "abc")
> %04d %s <NA> <NA>
> "0001 abc" "0002 abc" "0003 abc"
>
> the only slightly unaesthetic thing being the names of the resulting vector.
...which is of course fixable with either of
> mapply(sprintf, MoreArgs=list(fmt="%04d %s"), 1:3, "abc")
[1] "0001 abc" "0002 abc" "0003 abc"
> mapply(sprintf, 1:3, "abc", fmt="%04d %s")
[1] "0001 abc" "0002 abc" "0003 abc"
> mapply(sprintf, "%04d %s", 1:3, "abc", USE.NAMES=FALSE)
[1] "0001 abc" "0002 abc" "0003 abc"
(Only the last one is completely failsafe since the first two relies
on 1:3 not being character:
if (USE.NAMES && length(dots) && is.character(dots[[1]]) &&
is.null(names(answer)))
names(answer) <- dots[[1]]
)
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