[R] R as a programming language

[Barry Rowlingson]

hadley wickham wrote:

> You're assuming an automatic cast from numbers into strings?  What if
> a + "4" threw an error?

  What's wrong with commas anyway when using cat():

  > cat("x is ",x,' and y is ',y,'\n',sep='')
  x is 1 and y is 2

  and there's always sprintf() for those moments when you want neat 
formatting.

  Is it just me who thinks it's odd that in a language that is umpteen 
years old we are still discussing the fundamentals of what essentially 
makes up the 'hello world' example?

Barry