[Rd] (PR#7942) extra spaces before imag part when printing

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is intentional: it aligns the numbers.  E.g.

> options(width=12)
> print(c(1+1i, 1-10i, 1+100i))
[1] 1+  1i
[2] 1- 10i
[3] 1+100i

Neat, eh?

What made you think this was a bug?

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 cyril.humbert at univ-mlv.fr wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When printing sequence of complex numbers, extra spaces
> are sometimes printed between real and imaginary part of
> each number.
>
> For example:
> ## R Version 2.1.1 beta (2005-06-13) [Debian unstable, i386]
> ## and R Version 2.1.0               [Debian unstable, i386]
>
>> print(c(1+1i, 10+1i, 100+1i)) # Ok
> [1]   1+1i  10+1i 100+1i
>
>> print(c(1+1i, 1-10i, 1+100i))
> [1] 1+  1i 1- 10i 1+100i
>      ^^     ^
>  (extra spaces)
>
>
>
> The numbers of inserted spaces depends on the imaginary
> part which has the largest number of figures:
>
>> print(c(1+1i, 1+12i))
> [1] 1+ 1i 1+12i
>      ^
>
>> print(c(1+1i, 1+123i))
> [1] 1+  1i 1+123i
>      ^^
>
>> print(c(1+1i, 1+1234i))
> [1] 1+   1i 1+1234i
>      ^^^

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