[R] How do I paste double quotes arround a character string?

[Philip James Smith]

Thanks for your reply, Ted... I am very grateful for it.

Using your notation, what I need is a character string Y that looks like:

 >
 > Y
 >[1] ""New Mexico""

rather than

 > Y
 >[1] "\"New Mexico\""

i.e., Y must have the string 'New Mexico' surrounded by double quotes, 
rather than double quotes preceded by slashes.

The reason why I need it that way is that I've over simplified my 
request and the character string is actually a unix command that needs 
to be surrounded by double quotes when embeded in the unix (linux) 
executes it. When unix sees that slash before the quotes, it gives an error.

I'd be grateful if you can provide a solution to this!!

Thank you, Ted!

Gratefully,
Phil Smith
Duluth, GA


(Ted Harding) wrote:
> On 03-Jul-08 01:25:55, Philip James Smith wrote:
>   
>> Hi R Community:
>> I've got a character string that looks like: New Mexico
>>
>> How to I create the new character string that looks like: "New Mexico" 
>> That is, it is the original string (New Mexico)  with double quotes 
>> infront and behind it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phil Smith
>>     
>
> I tried the following. Is that the sort of thing you want to achieve?
>
>   X<-"New Mexico"
>   Y<-"\"New Mexico\""
>   X
> # [1] "New Mexico"
>   Y
> # [1] "\"New Mexico\""
>   plot((1:10),xlab=X,ylab=Y)
>
> Best wishes,
> Ted.
>
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