Message-ID: <77EB52C6DD32BA4D87471DCD70C8D7001DE74D@NA-PA-VBE03.na.tibco.com>
Date: 2008-11-06T01:05:26Z
From: William Dunlap
Subject: puzzled by cat() behaviour when argument '...' is a vector(and argument 'sep' contains "\n")
In-Reply-To: <77EB52C6DD32BA4D87471DCD70C8D7001DE739@NA-PA-VBE03.na.tibco.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of William Dunlap
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:51 PM
> To: Duncan Murdoch; Peter Ruckdeschel
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] puzzled by cat() behaviour when argument
> '...' is a vector(and argument 'sep' contains "\n")
...
> Neither use any entry in sep after the end of the cat()
> output, although, because of the previous rule, it may seem
> that they do in the common case of sep="".
I meant 'common case of sep="\n"'.
> I had forgotten that sep= could be vectorized and use paste()
> instead of
> cat() when I needed such functionality. IMO, paste() has
> fewer surprises.
>
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Spotfire Inc
> wdunlap tibco.com