[R] blank space escape sequence in R?

[Jan van der Laan]

There exists a non-breaking space:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space

Perhaps you could use this. In R on Linux under gnome-terminal I can 
enter it with CTRL+SHIFT+U00A0. This seems to work: it prints as a 
space, but is not equal to ' '. I don't know if there are any 
difficulties using, for example, utf8 encoding in source files (which 
you'll probably need).

Jan



On 04/25/2011 03:28 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 25/04/2011 9:13 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
>> I use a function that inserts line breaks ("\n" as escape sequence) 
>> according to some criterion when there are blanks in the string.
>> e.g. "some text \nand some more text".
>>
>> What I want now is another form of a blank, so my function will not 
>> insert a ”\n" at that point.
>> e.g. "some text\spaceand some more text"
>>
>> Here "\space" stands for some escape sequence for a  blank, which is 
>> what I am looking for.
>> So what I need is something that will appear as a blank when printed 
>> but not in the string itself.
>
> I don't think R has anything like that built in.   You'll need to 
> attach a class to your vector of strings, and write a print method for 
> it that does the substitution before printing.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> TIA
>>
>> Am 25.04.2011 um 15:05 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
>>
>> >  On 25/04/2011 9:01 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
>> >>  Is there a blank space escape sequence in R, i.e. something like 
>> \sp etc. to produce a blank space?
>> >
>> >  You need to give some context.  A blank in a character vector will 
>> be printed as a blank, so you are probably talking about something 
>> else, but what?
>> >
>> >  Duncan Murdoch
>>
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