R: sprintf(): Assemble string in formatted manner

It is a wrapper for the C function sprintf,  returns a character vector containing a formatted combination of text and variable values.

Usage

sprintf(fmt, ...)

fmt : a character vector of format strings, each of up to 8192 bytes.

... : values to be passed into fmt. 

> x <- sprintf("My name is %s, I am %d years old", "Hari Krishna", 25)
> x
[1] "My name is Hari Krishna, I am 25 years old"

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