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R: Print formatted messages

scat	R Documentation

Print formatted messages

A replacement for cat that has built-in sprintf formatting

  scat(format, ..., use.newline = TRUE)

`format`	A format string passed to sprintf
`use.newline`	Whether to append a new line at the end
`...`	Arguments to pass to sprintf for dereferencing

Like cat but you can use format strings.

A formatted string printed to the console

Brian Lee Yung Rowe

apply(array(2:5),1, function(x) scat('This has happened %s times', x) )