On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Philippe Hup� wrote:
> I would like to write in a variable the following string :
>
> Hello "World"
>
> If I do cat("Hello ","\"World\""), I have the good result on the screen
> but it can not be affected to a variable. If I do the same thing with
> paste paste("Hello ","\"World\"") it does not work since \" seems to be
> not recognized. So what is the trick to do that.
It is recognized:
> xx <- paste("Hello ","\"World\"")
> print(xx)
[1] "Hello \"World\""
> cat(xx, "\n")
Hello "World"
> print(xx, quote=FALSE)
[1] Hello "World"
It's likely that it is the behaviour of print() you did not understand:
the quote appears by itself in the character string but is escaped when
printed within quotes.
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