cat, and printing the last separator
On 12-01-25 7:04 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
On 25 Jan 2012, at 11:54, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I think the documentation for cat is a little ambiguous, but it is working as documented if I read "If any element of sep contains a newline character," to mean that the element consists of a newline and nothing else. I'm not sure if that was the intended reading or not.
I don't know about the reading, but if memory serves me well, once upon a time cat would not automatically go to a newline, i.e. cat(1, file = '') 1> so I'd have to explictly set the newline as a separator: cat(1, file= '', sep = '\n') 1
I don't think that has changed. Duncan Murdoch
Though I admit my memory could be wrong. Thank you for the solution btw. BW Federico
How would I overcome this issue? I tried a number of things, all of which have failed.
I'd use sprintf for that, i.e. something like
count<- c(3, 17, 15)
pct<- c(20, 30, 31)
cat(sprintf("%d (%d%%)\n", count, pct), sep="")
where count and pct are the vectors of values to go into the display.
Duncan Murdoch
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