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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.