[R] Simple cat statement - output truncated

[rkevinburton at charter.net]

So then I am to assume that the output of 'cat' can be truncated by passing it "bad" arrays. That is the only difference between the "reproducible" code you show and mine. It is just a theory but say that the components array is not dimmensioned for 4 elements. It seems a little strange if that is the case that a reference error is not thrown and just the output of the cat call is affected.

Kevin

---- Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote: 
> On 7/15/2009 9:53 AM, rkevinburton at charter.net wrote:
> > I have a statement:
> > 
> >     cat("myforecast ETS(", paste(object$components[1], object$components[2], object$components[3], object$components[4], sep = ","), ") ", n, "\n")
> > 
> > That generates:
> > 
> > cast ETS( A,N,N,FALSE )  3 
> > 
> > Anyone guess as to why the first 5 letters are truncated/missing?
> 
> You are probably being punished for posting non-reproducible code*.
> 
> When I try a reproducible version of the line above, things look fine:
> 
>  > cat("myforecast ETS(", paste("A","N","N",FALSE, sep = ","), ") ", 3, 
> "\n")
> myforecast ETS( A,N,N,FALSE )  3
> 
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> * R has a new predictive punishment module.  It punishes you for things 
> it knows you will do later.