%s$% {stringi}

C-Style Formatting with stri_sprintf as a Binary Operator

Description

Provides access to stri_sprintf in form of a binary operator in a way similar to Python's % overloaded for strings.

Missing values and empty vectors are propagated as usual.

Usage

e1 %s$% e2

e1 %stri$% e2

Arguments

e1

format strings, see stri_sprintf for syntax

e2

a list of atomic vectors to be passed to stri_sprintf or a single atomic vector

Details

Vectorized over e1 and e2.

e1 %s$% atomic_vector is equivalent to e1 %s$% list(atomic_vector).

Value

Returns a character vector.

Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02

Other length: stri_isempty(), stri_length(), stri_numbytes(), stri_pad_both(), stri_sprintf(), stri_width()

Examples

"value='%d'" %s$% 3
"value='%d'" %s$% 1:3
"%s='%d'" %s$% list("value", 3)
"%s='%d'" %s$% list("value", 1:3)
"%s='%d'" %s$% list(c("a", "b", "c"), 1)
"%s='%d'" %s$% list(c("a", "b", "c"), 1:3)

x <- c("abcd", "\u00DF\u00B5\U0001F970", "abcdef")
cat("[%6s]" %s$% x, sep="\n")  # width used, not the number of bytes