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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