inconsistencies between formatC(), format() and format.char()

[Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi]

Dear R-Developers,

Just a note: there are some inconsistencies between formatC(), format() and
format.char() and cross calling between these functions.
On the one hand

> cat(format('{"}'), "\n")
{\"}

> cat(format.char('{"}'), "\n")
{\"}

is by default format.char(, flag="-") and thus by default calling format()

> cat(format.char('{"}', flag="-"), "\n")
{\"}


On the other hand

> cat(formatC('{"}'), "\n")
{"}

which is calling format.char(, flag="")

> cat(format.char('{"}', flag=""), "\n")
{"}


also (for me) unexpected is

> format(" abc ", trim=T)
[1] " abc "


As an alternative see functions pad() and trim() from my other mailing ...
Regards


Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi


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platform Windows
arch     x86
os       Win32
system   x86, Win32
status
major    0
minor    90.1
year     1999
month    December
day      15
language R


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