R-alpha: cat

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Robert Gentleman writes:

> Kurt,
>   here's what S does (I recall going to some effort to duplicate the,
> at times, seemingly unusual behaviour of cat)
> S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc.
> S : Copyright AT&T.
> Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 : 1996 
> Working data will be in /users/rdev/rgentlem/.Data 
>> x <- factor(c(1:3, NA), exclude=numeric(0))
>> x
> [1] 1  2  3  NA
>> levels(x)
> [1] "1"  "2"  "3"  "NA"
>> cat(x, sep = "&")
> 1&2&3&4> cat(x, sep = "&\n")
> 1&
> 2&
> 3&
> 4
>> 

> so, the behaviour of cat is the same (whether it's correct or not
> .....)

Yes, I noticed that too.  Perhaps R could add an argument which toggles
this behavior?  (Or is there an easy other way to get what I want?)

Thanks,
-k
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