I may have misread your original email. Whether you use a hex escape or a space character, the resulting string in memory is identical:
> identical("a\x20b", "a b") [1] TRUE But, if you were to read a file containing the six characters "a \x20b" (say with readLines), then the six characters would be read into memory, and printed like this: "a\\x20b" That is, not with a space character substituted for \x20. So, now I'm not sure this is a solution. On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 12:24 -0500, Matt Shotwell wrote: > You can embed hex escapes in strings (except \x00). The value(s) that > you embed will depend on the character encoding used on you platform. If > this is UTF-8, or some other ASCII compatible encoding, \x20 will work: > > > "foo\x20bar" > [1] "foo bar" > > > > For other locales, you might try charToRaw(" ") to see the binary (hex) > representation for the space character on your platform, and substitute > this sequence instead. > > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 15:01 +0200, Mark Heckmann wrote: > > Is there a blank space escape sequence in R, i.e. something like \sp etc. > > to produce a blank space? > > > > TIA > > Mark > > ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > > Mark Heckmann > > Blog: www.markheckmann.de > > R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.