I would like to assign a variable y the string: <question><span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt"> How can I do it - is it possible? Best, Robert
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4 messages · Peter Dalgaard, Robert, Gabor Grothendieck
robert-mcfadden at o2.pl wrote:
I would like to assign a variable y the string: <question><span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt"> How can I do it - is it possible?
Sure, but you need to escape the double quotes. The easiest way is actually to read it in, like (sorry about the line breakage...)
x <- readLines(n=1)
<question><span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt">
x
[1] "<question><span style=\"color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt\">" but you could also assign directly
y <- "<question><span style=\"color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14pt\">"
x == y
[1] TRUE (Notice that the backslashes are not actually part of the string, it is just that internal quotes are _displayed_ as \", and entered in the same way. This tends to confuse people at first.)
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Thank you very much all of you. (I forgot about directly ' ', instead I used " " and got errors.) Best, Robert Dnia 6 stycznia 2010 12:22 robert-mcfadden at o2.pl napisa?(a):
I would like to assign a variable y the string: <question><span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt"> How can I do it - is it possible? Best, Robert
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Some new syntax to handle this without escapes was on my wish list for R and keeps coming up from time to time. As mentioned it would also be useful for latex source, Windows path names, regular expressions and other situations such as this one which require characters that otherwise need to be escaped.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
robert-mcfadden at o2.pl wrote:
I would like to assign a variable y the string: <question><span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt"> How can I do it - is it possible?
Sure, but you need to escape the double quotes. The easiest way is actually to read it in, like (sorry about the line breakage...)
x <- readLines(n=1)
<question><span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt">
x
[1] "<question><span style=\"color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt\">" but you could also assign directly
y <- "<question><span style=\"color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold;
font-size: 14pt\">"
x == y
[1] TRUE (Notice that the backslashes are not actually part of the string, it is just that internal quotes are _displayed_ as \", and entered in the same way. This tends to confuse people at first.) -- ? O__ ?---- Peter Dalgaard ? ? ? ? ? ? ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B ?c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics ? ? PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K ?(*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen ? Denmark ? ? ?Ph: ?(+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) ? ? ? ? ? ? ?FAX: (+45) 35327907
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.