Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10005221925180.1356-100000@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2000-05-22T17:27:21Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: backslash
In-Reply-To: <x2wvkm34qv.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
On 22 May 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Helgi Tomasson <helgito at hi.is> writes:
>
> > Hi R-people
> >
> > I am trying to have R write latex-code.
> >
> > "\begin{tabular}"
> >
> > and
> >
> > "\end{tabular}
> >
> > do not produce similar results. I would like to something like
> >
> > write("\begin{tabular} ,file=. . .)
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > write("\end{tabular},file=. . .)
>
> Hmmm. Not too clear what your problem is but if something is eating
> your backslashes, chances are that you just need to double them, as in
>
> > cat("\\help\n")
> \help
> >
>
> In some rare cases you need to redouble them, but this is not one of
> them, I think....
Oh. It is one of these cases , I think:
\b means: Backspace!
To write something with "\" in it, it is much safer to double the "\"
every time.
Regards,
Uwe Ligges
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