On 25/04/2011 9:13 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
I use a function that inserts line breaks ("\n" as escape sequence) according to some criterion when there are blanks in the string. e.g. "some text \nand some more text".What I want now is another form of a blank, so my function will not insert a ”\n" at that point. e.g. "some text\spaceand some more text" Here "\space" stands for some escape sequence for a blank, which is what I am looking for. So what I need is something that will appear as a blank when printed but not in the string itself.
I don't think R has anything like that built in. You'll need to attach a class to your vector of strings, and write a print method for it that does the substitution before printing.
Duncan Murdoch
TIA Am 25.04.2011 um 15:05 schrieb Duncan Murdoch: > On 25/04/2011 9:01 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote: >> Is there a blank space escape sequence in R, i.e. something like \sp etc. to produce a blank space? > > You need to give some context. A blank in a character vector will be printed as a blank, so you are probably talking about something else, but what? > > Duncan Murdoch ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Mark Heckmann Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com
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