[R] printf and friends in R?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 08:27, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> (Ted Harding) wrote:
> > On 15-Jul-03 Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> > 
> >>help.search("printf") reveals the sprintf function (amongst others).
> > 
> > Thanks! (For some reason this drew a blank when I tried it before ... ).
> 
>   perhaps because help.search does approximate matching and found 
> everything with 'print' in as well? I get about 12 screens of matches to 
> that, but because I knew sprintf was in there _somewhere_ I found it.
> 
>   You can turn off approximate matching with:
> 
>     help.search("printf",agrep=F)
> 
>   which gives the one true match.
> 
> Baz


Yet another option, which I forget about myself sometimes, is apropos().

For example:

> apropos("printf")
[1] "sprintf"

See ?apropos for more info.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz