Question

I’m looking for how to do printf in r, ie I want to type:

printf("hello %d\n", 56 )

and get the same output as typing:

print(sprintf("hello %d\n", 56 )

I’ve read the following links:

• Printing newlines with print() in R
• what's a prettier way to print info with R?

… so I’m aware I could use cat("hello", 56) , and that’s probably what I will do, but just wondering if there is some shortcut way of writing print(sprintf(...))?

Sorry if this question is a duplicate (I dont know). It’s awfully hard to search for ‘printf r’, since it returns results for php, c, …

Answer 1

printf <- function(...) invisible(print(sprintf(...)))

The outer invisible call may be unnecessary, I’m not 100% clear on how that works.