Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sprintf() in R-devel is now vectorized, re-cycling its arguments, > including fmt, as required.
Thanks, Brian. This leaves me with one question: what is actually the wisdom behind the USE.NAMES default in mapply? Seems to me that it gets in the way more often that it is useful (and has some real problems with recycling, clearly). Thomas? > >>> mapply(sprintf, "%04d %s", 1:3, "abc", USE.NAMES=FALSE) > >> [1] "0001 abc" "0002 abc" "0003 abc" > >> if (USE.NAMES && length(dots) && is.character(dots[[1]]) && > >> is.null(names(answer))) > >> names(answer) <- dots[[1]] > >> ) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
