"Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 10/16/06, Frank McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't '\\' be converted into '\' in my
> > string? In my output (below), you can see that '\\' remains '\\'.
> >
> > > term = "mother\'s day"
> > > term
> > [1] "mother's day"
> > > term = "mother\\\'s day"
> > > term
> > [1] "mother\\'s day" <--- should be "mother\'s day"
>
> I think this is just a matter of interpetation of the output:
>
> > strsplit("mother\\'s day", NULL)[[1]]
> [1] "m" "o" "t" "h" "e" "r" "\\" "'" "s" " " "d" "a" "y"
>
> > cat("mother\\'s day", "\n")
> mother\'s day
>
> > nchar("mother\\'s day")
> [1] 13
And check out the new FAQ 7.37....
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-does-backslash-behave-strangely-inside-strings_003f
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