On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:42 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
They're not actually there so don't try too hard to rid yourself of them: x <- "\'" length(x) print(x) cat(x, "\n")
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