On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 14:40 +0200, Jan Wijffels wrote:
> Dear helpeRs,
>
> I would like to specify a newline command in R and pass it to latex
> via Sweave such that it corresponds to latex' \\ command. But that
> doesn't seem to be possible. If I Sweave the \n character, it just
> makes a new line in latex but not the \\ command.
>
> Is there a way such that the following code would result in latex in
> blablabla \\ blablabla on different line
>
>
> <<echo=FALSE>>=
> string <- "blablabla \\ blablabla on different line"
> @
> \Sexpr{string}
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Jan
In R, the "\" is an escape character, so to get a single "\" output, you
actually need to double it, "\\".
Thus, to get "\\" output as part of a character vector, you would need
"\\\\":
> string <- "blablabla \\\\ blablabla on different line"
> cat(string, "\n")
blablabla \\ blablabla on different line
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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