[R] NaN/NA and sprintf double format

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

With a (late prerelease of) 1.5.0 on Windows, using sprintf on NaN 
yields garbage when the number of decimal is specified while it
works fine for NA:

> sprintf("%.2f", NA)
[1] "0.00"
> sprintf("%.2f", NaN)
[1] "-1.#J"

Not specifying the decimal precision lets both print garbage:

> sprintf("%f", NaN)
[1] "-1.#IND00"
> sprintf("%f", NA)
[1] "-1.#QNAN0"

Is this a bug or a feature?  

Dirk

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