[R] passing ", betrayed by the non-vanishing \

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"graham lawrence" <forporphyry at hotmail.com> writes:

> mtex[3]<-"I need\'s a \"double quote\" with no backslash"
> mtex[3]
> [1] "I need's a \"double quote\" with no backslash"
> 
> so how is it done?  Thanks in advance,

You's got two of them in there already! Try cat(mtex[3], "\n")

Printing character strings will always escape double quotes,
backaslashes and various control characters. No way around that except
by using cat().

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