[R] How to represent pure linefeeds chr(10) under R for Windows
Barry Rowlingson
B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Wed Nov 5 18:09:43 CET 2003
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Use \n in the character string, if I understand you aright, as in
>
> foo <-"a\nb"
>
This produces a CSV file from write.table() with a line-break halfway
through a record, thus:
"4" 4 "d"
"5" 5 "new
line"
"6" 6 "f"
R will happily read.table() this back in again, but other packages may
not be so obliging. OpenOffice spreadsheet makes a hash of it, sticking
'line"' on a line on its own in the spreadsheet. I hope whatever Jens
wants to do with these CSV files works!
Barry
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