FW: [R] How do I insert a newline in my title in a plot?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Paul Lemmens wrote:

> Hoi Christos,
> 
> --On donderdag 16 september 2004 16:00 +0300 Christos Rodopoulos 
> <chrodopoulos at mindshare.gr> wrote:
> 
> > yes I have tries, and nothing. It just shows the strings with the slashn,
> > just like i typed it.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rashid Nassar [mailto:rnassar at duke.edu]
> > Sent: ÐÝì?ôç, 16 Óå?ôåìâñßïõ 2004 15:44
> > To: Christos Rodopoulos
> > Subject: Re: [R] How do I insert a newline in my title in a plot?
> >
> >
> > Have you not tried what you have already suggested:
> >
> >    title("this is a title\nIn 2 lines")
> > ?
> >
> I've tried it out and you should use single quotes, then it'll work.

At least inside R single and double quotes are equivalent.

> So it's an interpretation matter. Unfortunately I cannot figure out the 
> help page dealing with this :-/

That's because it's in R-lang:

String constants are delimited by a pair of single (@samp{'}) or double
(@samp{"}) quotes and can contain all other printable characters.
Quotes and other special characters within strings are specified using
@emph{escape sequences}:

A single quote may also be embedded directly in a double-quote delimited
string and vice versa.


It is possible that a front-end processor is interfering here, and so what 
is typed is not reaching R unchanged.

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