[R] specify blank in a string with special characters

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 15:26:47 CEST 2010


On 20/07/2010 9:00 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
> is there a way to specify a blank in a string with special/escape  
> characters?
> like:
>
> "and now a blank%%%%and text after the blank",
>
> where %%%% stand for the specification of the blank character

The answer to your question is "yes", because you just did.  But I think 
you have something more in mind:  what part of R should recognize those 
special characters as blanks?

Duncan Murdoch



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