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

I have had the exact same problem. In a nutshell, cat() is a little wonky under R. You didn't go into great detail about how you are trying to use cat() but I would suggest looking at paste().

?paste

I think it may be what you are looking for.