[Rd] sprintf behavior (PR#9250)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, michael.bauer at lo-res.org wrote:

> Full_Name: Michael Bauer
> Version: 2.3.1
> OS: Mac OS X 10.4.7
> Submission from: (NULL) (131.130.124.155)
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> [6] "datasets"  "base"
>>
>
> sprintf("\p") doesn't show the backslash, this occurs with all strings that
> start with certain letters. There is however no explanation to this behavior.

There is: see ?Quote (and C behaves in the same way).

> And there seems to be no way to get a guaranteed backslash in sprintf.

"\\", see the FAQ 7.8 for example.

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