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.