what's a prettier way to print info with R?

Question

In R, I use the print function for output but I always get an ugly output. If I do:

print(\"hello world\")

the output is:

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Answer 1

Simply cat to print on stdout and message to print on stderr. sprintf (working exactly as in C) and paste are helpful when generating the output.

Answer 2

Please read the fine manuals and discover cat(), sprintf(), ... and much much more.

Answer 3

writeLine is another option

writeLines('Hello World')