”\r" is CR not LF. On systems that use CRLF as newline, the combination should be "\n" at the C (or R) level.
However, I suppose there is no particular reason not to treat CR as whitespace, as does happen with FF and HT. -pd > On 11 Apr 2019, at 01:59 , Mikhail Titov <m...@gmx.us> wrote: > > The barely modified test code I had in my previous post, does not parse > what would seem a legit sample string "\r\n ls()". However, it does > parse alright "\n ls()". Nowhere in the docs the intolerance to line > feeds is mentioned. It is reproducible from R console as well. > > ,----[ R console session ] > | > parse(text="\r\n ls()") > | Error in parse(text = "\r\n ls()") : <text>:1:1: unexpected input > | 1: > | ^ > | > > `---- > -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
