"\"" is how its displayed on the screen. however, if you write your object to a csv it will be correct. r cant display """ as it is so it is escaping the second double quote for you
however, "'" (double quote single quote double quote) does display correctly as well as save correctly. If that doesn't answer your question, some more back story on what you're trying to do would help. Justin On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:03 PM, bonnieyuan <bby2...@columbia.edu> wrote: > I'm doing a text mining project where I have to manually enter a double > quote > as an element inside a vector. > > I tried > > char[10]='"'#where i enclosed the double quote in a pair of single quotes. > > But the result is [1] "\"". Somehow a back slash is added automatically. > > I also tried to enclose the double quote in a pair of double quotes. That > didn't work either. > > I'm using Mac and latest release of R. > > Thank you! > > Bonnie Yuan > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-manually-enter-an-double-quote-as-data-feed-tp4192283p4192283.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
