inconsistencies between formatC(), format() and format.char()
Jens Oehlschlägel-Akiyoshi
jens.oehlschlaegel-akiyoshi@mdfactory.de
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:05:37 +0100
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
> version
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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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