R: Formatted Printing (Matlab style)

fprintf {pracma} | R Documentation

## Formatted Printing (Matlab style)

### Description

Formatted printing to stdout or a file.

### Usage

    fprintf(fmt, ..., file = "", append = FALSE)

### Arguments

`fmt` | a character vector of format strings.
`...` | values passed to the format string.
`file` | a connection or a character string naming the file to print to; default is "" which means standard output.
`append` | logical; shall the output be appended to the file; default is `FALSE`.

### Details

`fprintf` applies the format string `fmt` to all input data `...` and writes the result to standard output or a file. The usual C-style string formatting commands are used-

### Value

Returns invisibly the number of bytes printed (using `nchar`).

### See Also

`sprintf`

### Examples

    ##  Examples:
    nbytes <- fprintf("Results are:\n", file = "")
    for (i in 1:10) {
        fprintf("%4d  %15.7f\n", i, exp(i), file = "")
    }

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