Hi,
I am trying to split a string into 2 separate strings
in 2 lines. So, tried with
sprintf("%s \n %s", "ID", "Name")
But R prints: [1] "ID \n Name" instead of
ID
Name
Is it something I am missing here?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Ezhil
A Ezhil wrote:> Hi, > > I am trying to split a string into 2 separate strings > in 2 lines. So, tried with > > sprintf("%s \n %s", "ID", "Name") > > But R prints: [1] "ID \n Name" instead of > ID > Name> Is it something I am missing here?Yes, in order to respect teh control character you have to cat() it as in: cat(sprintf("%s \n %s", "ID", "Name")) Uwe Ligges> Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Ezhil > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.
Thank you very much. It works ! Ezhil --- Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:> > > A Ezhil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to split a string into 2 separate > strings > > in 2 lines. So, tried with > > > > sprintf("%s \n %s", "ID", "Name") > > > > But R prints: [1] "ID \n Name" instead of > > ID > > Name > > > Is it something I am missing here? > > > Yes, in order to respect teh control character you > have to cat() it as in: > > cat(sprintf("%s \n %s", "ID", "Name")) > > Uwe Ligges > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Best regards, > > Ezhil > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at 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. >