Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> and there's always sprintf() for those moments when you
>> want neat formatting.
>
> That's good when you want good control over the formatting, but it
> doesn't tend to be all that readable, with the variables all listed
> at the end, instead of in between the bits of string.
>
As the old saying goes, you can eat the cake and have it:
x <- rnorm(1)
cat("x is close to ", sprintf("%.1lf", x), " and closer to ",
sprintf("%.10lf", x), "\n", sep = "")
:-)
I am using R as a generic programming language for doing
jobs in Windows that I can't do using DOS batch - things
like taking a text in Latin-1 and removing the accented
characters, or looping through a directory and renaming
files with weird names, or creating a .wpl file with the mp3s.
Alberto Monteiro
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