Re: [R] How to use escape characters in a string

2010-01-29 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 29, 2010, at 4:58 PM, mary guo wrote: Hi, I want to use a character as below in R, What character? as.character("`X^`R\`S") [1] "`X^`R`S" Warning messages: 1: '\`' is an unrecognized escape in a character string 2: unrecognized escape removed from "`X^`R\`S" > nchar("`X^`R\`S") [1]

Re: [R] How to use escape characters in a string

2010-01-29 Thread Bert Gunter
oject.org] On Behalf Of mary guo Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 1:58 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to use escape characters in a string Hi, I want to use a character as below in R, as.character("`X^`R\`S") [1] "`X^`R`S" Warning messages: 1: '\`' i

[R] How to use escape characters in a string

2010-01-29 Thread mary guo
Hi, I want to use a character as below in R, as.character("`X^`R\`S") [1] "`X^`R`S" Warning messages: 1: '\`' is an unrecognized escape in a character string 2: unrecognized escape removed from "`X^`R\`S" But I found errors. Can I use some option in as.character() to change this? Thanks Mary