Liu.Chunhua@epamail.epa.gov
2002-Jan-09 18:02 UTC
[R] Difference in Cat(...) function between S Plus and R ?
Dear All, THis is my "data.char$excluded" object and I want to show its content in my output screen.> data.char$excluded$names [1] "Species" "Target" "Sex" [[2]] [1] "DG" [[3]] [1] "R" [[4]] [1] "M">When I run cat() in S Plus, I got:> cat(data.char$excluded, "\n")c("Species", "Target", "Sex") "DG" "R" "M" However, when I run the same commend in R, I got:> cat(data.char$excluded, "\n")Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) : argument 1 not yet handled by cat Anyone know what's wrong with it. Thanks Charlie Liu -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Prof Brian Ripley
2002-Jan-09 18:33 UTC
[R] Difference in Cat(...) function between S Plus and R ?
Looks like it's a list, but you haven't told us (and the result of typeof() would have helped). If so, this is a known difference, and see ?unlist for how to help resolve it. I don't think though that what you show for `S Plus' is very useful, and normally you want to loop over a list. On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 Liu.Chunhua at epamail.epa.gov wrote:> Dear All, > > THis is my "data.char$excluded" object and I want to show its content in > my output screen. > > > data.char$excluded > $names > [1] "Species" "Target" "Sex" > > [[2]] > [1] "DG" > > [[3]] > [1] "R" > > [[4]] > [1] "M" > > > > > When I run cat() in S Plus, I got: > > > cat(data.char$excluded, "\n") > c("Species", "Target", "Sex") "DG" "R" "M" > > However, when I run the same commend in R, I got: > > cat(data.char$excluded, "\n") > Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, append) : > argument 1 not yet handled by cat > > Anyone know what's wrong with it. > > Thanks > > Charlie Liu > > > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._