R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes (PR#8037)

Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than 
R-devel.

I guess that this means that someone must have a use for allowEscapes=TRUE 
when read reading a file in table format into a data frame. It is hard to 
imagine.

Gordon

This seems of historical interest only.

allowEscapes is currently (in R-devel, where development happens) an 
argument to read.table.

We do ask people to check the current version!