quotation marks and scan

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:42 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
 Did you mean to do 'nchar(x)' to show that \" was one character?
'length' gives the number of elements in a vector, which in this case
is also one.

 > x=c("\"", '\'')
 > length(x)

 [1] 2

 > nchar(x)

 [1] 1 1