[R] tab characters

[jim holtman]

?cat

> x <- '\t'
> print(x)
[1] "\t"
> cat(x)
        >


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Nick Matzke <matzke at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Working at the R command line, how do I get strings to display e.g. tab or
> newline characters as they should be displayed, rather than as e.g. \n or
> \t?
>
> e.g.:
>> x="\t"
>> x="\t"
>> x
> [1] "\t"
>> print(x)
> [1] "\t"
>
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