Printing a single "\" character
Hi Thomas, thanks for the help, it does work. Regards, Firas.
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Thomas Lumley wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Firas Swidan wrote:
Hi, I have a small R question: how to print a single "\" character? I have the following results:
print("\") does not work
print("\\")
[1] "\\"
Use cat("\\").
I need to make the following substitution as well, but it does not work either:
sub("_","\_","g_g")
[1] "g_g"
Use
sub("_","\\\\_","g_g")
If you print() the result it will look as though it has a double \, but
that's an optical illusion. cat() will show it correctly with a single \
(and nchar() will confirm that it has 4 characters).
-thomas