sprintf doesn't care of escape characters
sprintf is working just fine. Your problem is the interpretation of what the results are. Displaying the object will show the escape characters, but if you use "cat", or output to a file, you will see that the result is correct:
cat( sprintf("a\nb"))
a b>
cat(sprintf("a\"bc\"d"))
a"bc"d>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Edwin Helbert Aponte Angarita
<helbert2a at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi. I am having trouble with something that should be simple. I am unable to get sprintf using escape sequences:
sprintf("a\nb")
[1] "a\nb"
sprintf("a\"bc\"d")
[1] "a\"bc\"d" But it seems to need them any way:
sprintf("a\"bc"d")
Error: unexpected symbol in "sprintf("a\"bc"d"
Any suggestion on how to solve this issue?
My R system:
version
_ platform x86_64-suse-linux-gnu arch x86_64 os linux-gnu system x86_64, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 15.0 year 2012 month 03 day 30 svn rev 58871 language R version.string R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) Thanks.
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