[R] is there a formatted output in R?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Michael wrote:

> something like "sprintf" in C?
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> so I can do:
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> print(sprintf("the correct result is %3.4f\n", myresult));

Did you try this line of code? It actually works in R, although you would 
probably prefer cat() instead of print().

 	-thomas

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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle