blank space escape sequence in R?
On 25/04/2011 9:13 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
I use a function that inserts line breaks ("\n" as escape sequence) according to some criterion when there are blanks in the string.
e.g. "some text \nand some more text".
What I want now is another form of a blank, so my function will not insert a ?\n" at that point.
e.g. "some text\spaceand some more text"
Here "\space" stands for some escape sequence for a blank, which is what I am looking for.
So what I need is something that will appear as a blank when printed but not in the string itself.
I don't think R has anything like that built in. You'll need to attach a class to your vector of strings, and write a print method for it that does the substitution before printing. Duncan Murdoch
TIA Am 25.04.2011 um 15:05 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
On 25/04/2011 9:01 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
Is there a blank space escape sequence in R, i.e. something like \sp etc. to produce a blank space?
You need to give some context. A blank in a character vector will be printed as a blank, so you are probably talking about something else, but what? Duncan Murdoch
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