[R] Printing vector

[Steven]

Thank you Lei. I incorporate Bill Dunlap's idea of flagging with FORTRAN 
stars when field width is short. It works great and serves what I need. 
Thank you all.

I love R!

Steven

Linus Chen 於 2019/7/23 下午 05:46 寫道:
> Dear Steven,
>
> The function "write()" has a parameter "columns".
> And sprint() can do do some formatting in C style.
>
> x <- rnorm(100)
> s <- sprintf( fmt="%8.2f" ,x )
> write(s,  file="", ncolumns=7L)
>
> Cheers,
> Lei
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 07:37, Steven <syen using hqu.edu.cn> wrote:
>> Is there a convenient way to print a vector into rows of a specified
>> column length? What I need is to print in the old FORTRAN format, viz.,
>>
>> format(10F8.2)
>>
>> which would print, for instance, a vector of 25 into two rows of 10 plus
>> an incomplete row of 5. I managed to write a procedure for that task, as
>> shown below (except that I prefer simply blanks rather than the NA). I
>> am too embarrassed to even show the procedure. In short, I like to print
>> in the above FORTRAN format. Thank you.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [1,] 0.66 0.26 0.82
>> 0.73 0.13 0.05 0.56 0.67 0.74 0.87 [2,] 0.91 0.25 0.40 0.39 0.50 0.89
>> 0.07 0.84 0.14 0.75 [3,] 0.38 0.08 0.86 0.97 0.56 NA NA NA NA NA
>>
>>
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