quotes in cat() within function

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file<- "\"Data labels\""
?directory="\"/home/mylaptop/\""
?cat("The file", file,"is located in directory",directory,sep=" ")
The file "Data labels" is located in directory "/home/mylaptop/"
A.K.



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From: Daniel Caro <dcarov at gmail.com>
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Subject: [R] quotes in cat() within function

Hello all,

Sorry if this question has been answered in the past, but I could not find
an answer.

I am trying to print quotes within a cat output. The arguments are:

file= "Data labels"
directory= "/home/mylaptop/"

The function returns:
cat("The file", file, "is located in directory", directory, sep=" ")

The output R prints is

The file Data labels is located in directory /home/mylaptop/

But I want "Data labels" and "/home/mylaptop/" to be in quotation marks.

I find examples using "\", such as

cat("Open fnd \"test\"")

But in my case "test" is an argument.


Thank you

Daniel

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Hello all,

Sorry if this question has been answered in the past, but I could not find
an answer.

I am trying to print quotes within a cat output. The arguments are:

file= "Data labels"
directory= "/home/mylaptop/"

The function returns:
cat("The file", file, "is located in directory", directory, sep=" ")

cat("The file\"", file, "\"is located in directory\"", directory, "\", sep=" ")

or use single quotes

cat('The file"', file, '"is located in directory"', directory, '"', sep=" ")

Hadley

--
Chief Scientist, RStudio
http://had.co.nz/

Hello all,

Sorry if this question has been answered in the past, but I could not find
an answer.

I am trying to print quotes within a cat output. The arguments are:

file= "Data labels"
directory= "/home/mylaptop/"

The function returns:
cat("The file", file, "is located in directory", directory, sep=" ")

The output R prints is

The file Data labels is located in directory /home/mylaptop/

But I want "Data labels" and "/home/mylaptop/" to be in quotation marks.

I find examples using "\", such as

cat("Open fnd \"test\"")

But in my case "test" is an argument.

See ?dQuote.  (Read it carefully:  some people don't like directional 
quotes, and dQuote might give them to you.)

Duncan Murdoch