Message-ID: <f8e6ff050912211245r5bf26ca3p958e9c49dfb58781@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-12-21T20:45:05Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: a little bug for the function 'sprintf' (PR#14161)
In-Reply-To: <4B2FB20C.2090003@biostat.ku.dk>
> The thing that is confusing you is that strings are DISPLAYED using the same
> escape-character mechanisms as used for input. Compare
>
>> cat(s)
> Sven is 7.100000 feet tall
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
Hadley
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