[R] Simple cat statement - output truncated

[rkevinburton at charter.net]

It has to be related to 'cat' because the output of 'cat' is truncated. I am just tyring to find out some possible reasons as to why it is truncated. I have been unable to form an array like is in the test program. Do you think there is something else that is gobbling up the output from cat that would make it appear to be truncated?

Kevin 

---- Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote: 
> On 7/16/2009 10:21 AM, rkevinburton at charter.net wrote:
> > So then I am to assume that the output of 'cat' can be truncated by passing it "bad" arrays. 
> 
> I certainly wouldn't draw that conclusion.  Without a reproducible 
> example, my assumption would be that it is unrelated to cat().
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> > That is the only difference between the "reproducible" code you show and mine. It is just a theory but say that the components array is not dimmensioned for 4 elements. It seems a little strange if that is the case that a reference error is not thrown and just the output of the cat call is affected.
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> > ---- Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote: 
> >> On 7/15/2009 9:53 AM, rkevinburton at charter.net wrote:
> >> > I have a statement:
> >> > 
> >> >     cat("myforecast ETS(", paste(object$components[1], object$components[2], object$components[3], object$components[4], sep = ","), ") ", n, "\n")
> >> > 
> >> > That generates:
> >> > 
> >> > cast ETS( A,N,N,FALSE )  3 
> >> > 
> >> > Anyone guess as to why the first 5 letters are truncated/missing?
> >> 
> >> You are probably being punished for posting non-reproducible code*.
> >> 
> >> When I try a reproducible version of the line above, things look fine:
> >> 
> >>  > cat("myforecast ETS(", paste("A","N","N",FALSE, sep = ","), ") ", 3, 
> >> "\n")
> >> myforecast ETS( A,N,N,FALSE )  3
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Duncan Murdoch
> >> 
> >> * R has a new predictive punishment module.  It punishes you for things 
> >> it knows you will do later.
>