[R] Problem with cat()

[Joshua Wiley]

Hello,

If it does not *have* to be cat(), this would work:

fn1 <- function(n = 5){
mat <- matrix(rnorm(5*5), 5, 5)
print(mat)
return(n)
}

Cheers,

Josh

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, I have a problem with the cat() function. Let say I have following:
>
> fn1 <- function(n = 5){
> mat <- matrix(rnorm(5*5), 5, 5)
> cat(as.character(mat))
> return(n)
> }
>
> However when I run above function I get this:
>> fn1()
> -0.601930631438248 -1.16950049447942 0.469257329394626
> -1.39766868242906 -1.02580943892082 1.4067931110327 -1.07245318857022
> -0.0205043699310245 0.234628727206755 2.20623115088835
> 0.689246510169205 0.390165590650482 1.16264636627546 -1.26460050014308
> -0.0618394808642369 1.55065748588694 -1.09179651631271
> 1.77868450520847 1.56281762714862 -0.0428547138289468 -1.5041448417776
> 0.221592557337622 -1.91535929883353 -0.712994991755814
> -0.440738636680476[1] 5
>
>
> How can I preserve the "matrix" format while printing?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
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