"'" prints as "\'"

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:

> (This reported before).
> In R,
> 	"'"
> prints as

> [1] "\'"

> which is different from S, and is really unnecessary.
> ((it is just now uglyfying the output of a function which I wrote for S
>   and now use in R)).

> Is there any good reason for the current behavior?

Yes.  To have ESS font-lock the output correctly.

-k
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