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printf

C-style formatted output

Description

C-style formatted output.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
printf(fmt, ..., sep="", file="")

Arguments

`fmt`	A `character` vector of format strings. See same argument for `sprintf`().
`...`	Additional arguments `sprintf`().
`sep`	A `character` `vector` of strings to append after each element.
`file`	A `connection`, or a `character` of a file to print to. See same argument for `cat`().

Value

Returns nothing.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

Examples

cat("Hello world\n")
  printf("Hello world\n")

  x <- 1.23
  cat(sprintf("x=%.2f\n", x))
  printf("x=%.2f\n", x)

  y <- 4.56
  cat(sprintf(c("x=%.2f\n", "y=%.2f\n"), c(x,y)), sep="")
  printf(c("x=%.2f\n", "y=%.2f\n"), c(x,y))

R.utils

Various Programming Utilities

v2.10.1

LGPL (>= 2.1)

Authors

Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release