I am unable to determine what you think the problem is from your description.
A wild guess is that you just don't know what you are looking at in the output.
Do you understand the difference between the output of the "print" function and
of the "cat" function? Try
cat( sprintf("a\"bc\"d") )
and
print ( sprintf("a\"bc\"d") )
In a nutshell, print makes the string suitable for inclusion in source code,
while cat sends the string directly as-is.
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Edwin Helbert Aponte Angarita <helber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I am having trouble with something that should be simple. I am unable
>to get sprintf using escape sequences:
>
>> sprintf("a\nb")
>[1] "a\nb"
>
>> sprintf("a\"bc\"d")
>[1] "a\"bc\"d"
>
>But it seems to need them any way:
>
>> sprintf("a\"bc"d")
>Error: unexpected symbol in "sprintf("a\"bc"d"
>
>Any suggestion on how to solve this issue?
>
>My R system:
>> version
> _
>platform x86_64-suse-linux-gnu
>arch x86_64
>os linux-gnu
>system x86_64, linux-gnu
>status
>major 2
>minor 15.0
>year 2012
>month 03
>day 30
>svn rev 58871
>language R
>version.string R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>
>Thanks.
>
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