Paul -
When you print a string, it escapes the quotes with a
backslash. That's a property of the print() function,
not the string itself.
If you want to see the string, use cat(). The nchar()
function is also useful:
str1 <- '"xyz"'
qr2 <- paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
[1] "abc\"xyz\""
cat(qr2,'\n')
abc"xyz"
nchar(qr2)
[1] 8
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spec...@stat.berkeley.edu
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Paul Evans wrote:
Hi,
How can I get double quotes embedded in the string?
Example:
--------------
str1 <- '"xyz"'
## desired output
# abc"xyz"
qr2 <- paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
-----------------
Actual output:
[1] "abc\"str\""
I also tried putting an escape sequence before the quote, but couldn't get the
string that I want.
thanks,
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