sprintf - was formatC with illegal input crashes Rgui (PR#7686)

Dear Prof. Ripley,

Would it be possible to make sprintf accept vector arguments?
I.e. allow expressions like
   sprintf("%04d", 1:3)
to produce something like what currently needs to be done via
   sapply(1:3, function(i) sprintf("%04d",i))

   Best wishes
   Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Huber
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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We'll fix this, but you might like to note that sprintf is more
bulletproof and as from 2.1.0-to-be, a lot more tolerant, e.g.

sprintf("%s", 1)

works there and in 2.0.1 gives a useful error message.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 ehlers@math.ucalgary.ca wrote:

Full_Name: Peter Ehlers
Version: rw2001pat (2005-02-03)
OS: Win XP
Submission from: (NULL) (136.159.61.115)


formatC(1, flag="s") crashes Rgui.
Similarly for flag=[SnZ].
Stupid input, of course, but I'm error-prone.