R-alpha: cat
Kurt Hornik
Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at
Wed, 28 May 1997 13:35:41 +0200
>>>>> Robert Gentleman writes:
> Kurt,
> here's what S does (I recall going to some effort to duplicate the,
> at times, seemingly unusual behaviour of cat)
> S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc.
> S : Copyright AT&T.
> Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 : 1996
> Working data will be in /users/rdev/rgentlem/.Data
>> x <- factor(c(1:3, NA), exclude=numeric(0))
>> x
> [1] 1 2 3 NA
>> levels(x)
> [1] "1" "2" "3" "NA"
>> cat(x, sep = "&")
> 1&2&3&4> cat(x, sep = "&\n")
> 1&
> 2&
> 3&
> 4
>>
> so, the behaviour of cat is the same (whether it's correct or not
> .....)
Yes, I noticed that too. Perhaps R could add an argument which toggles
this behavior? (Or is there an easy other way to get what I want?)
Thanks,
-k
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