This is intentional: it aligns the numbers. E.g.
options(width=12) print(c(1+1i, 1-10i, 1+100i))
[1] 1+ 1i [2] 1- 10i [3] 1+100i Neat, eh? What made you think this was a bug?
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 cyril.humbert at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
Hello, When printing sequence of complex numbers, extra spaces are sometimes printed between real and imaginary part of each number. For example: ## R Version 2.1.1 beta (2005-06-13) [Debian unstable, i386] ## and R Version 2.1.0 [Debian unstable, i386]
print(c(1+1i, 10+1i, 100+1i)) # Ok
[1] 1+1i 10+1i 100+1i
print(c(1+1i, 1-10i, 1+100i))
[1] 1+ 1i 1- 10i 1+100i
^^ ^
(extra spaces)
The numbers of inserted spaces depends on the imaginary
part which has the largest number of figures:
print(c(1+1i, 1+12i))
[1] 1+ 1i 1+12i
^
print(c(1+1i, 1+123i))
[1] 1+ 1i 1+123i
^^
print(c(1+1i, 1+1234i))
[1] 1+ 1i 1+1234i
^^^
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595