in R, can I stop print(cat(“”)) from returning NULL? and why does cat(“foo”) return foo>

Question

If I enter

print(cat(\"\"))

I get

NULL

I want to use cat() to print out the progress of an R sc

Answer 1

If you want to assign it to a variable, for use in a LOOP of *apply or function (x), try this:

x<-eval(paste0(name,".y"))

The name is the variable, the ".y" adds a string to it, paste says to print in, eval evaluates the print, <- assigns it to a variable, and ax is that variable.