There exists a non-breaking space:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space
Perhaps you could use this. In R on Linux under gnome-terminal I can
enter it with CTRL+SHIFT+U00A0. This seems to work: it prints as a
space, but is not equal to ' '. I don't know if there are any
difficulties using, for example, utf8 encoding in source files (which
you'll probably need).
Jan
On 04/25/2011 03:28 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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
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