From h.wickham at gmail.com  Mon Dec 21 21:45:05 2009
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (hadley wickham)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:45:05 +0000
Subject: [Rd] a little bug for the function 'sprintf' (PR#14161)
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> The thing that is confusing you is that strings are DISPLAYED using the same
> escape-character mechanisms as used for input. Compare
>
>> cat(s)
> Sven is 7.100000 feet tall

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M

Hadley

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[Rd] a little bug for the function 'sprintf' (PR#14161)
hadley wickham