[R] how to wrap a long line in R scripts?

[Jonathan P Daily]

Oops! Good catch. I have been coding in python and R recently and now I'm 
mixing conventions ... R's automatic line wrapping and Python's 
auto-catenation given a line wrap (via '\').

A better solution would be:

a <- paste("reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy looooo",
        "ooooooooong chaaaaaaaaarrr", sep = "")
print(a)

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Jonathan P. Daily
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r-help-bounces at r-project.org wrote on 01/10/2011 09:51:28 AM:

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> Re: [R] how to wrap a long line in R scripts?
> 
> Keith Jewell 
> 
> to:
> 
> r-help
> 
> 01/10/2011 09:54 AM
> 
> Sent by:
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> r-help-bounces at r-project.org
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> 
> "Jonathan P Daily" <jdaily at usgs.gov> wrote in message 
> 
news:OF588E803B.869E9AFF-ON85257814.004D298D-85257814.004D4FB5 at usgs.gov...
> >a <- "reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy looooo
> >        ooooooooong chaaaaaaaaarrr"
> >
> > Although the indentation is just personal preference.
> > --------------------------------------
> > Jonathan P. Daily
> > Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center
> > 11649 Leetown Road
> > Kearneysville WV, 25430
> > (304) 724-4480
> > "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,
> > the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it."
> >     - Jubal Early, Firefly
> >
> 
> Did you test that? Printing a to see the result so the commands are
> -------------
> a <- "reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy looooo
>         ooooooooong chaaaaaaaaarrr"
> a
> ----------------------------
> Pasting directly into Rgui
> > a <- "reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy looooo
> +         ooooooooong chaaaaaaaaarrr"
> > a
> [1] "reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy looooo\n        ooooooooong 
> chaaaaaaaaarrr"
> 
> Saving to file 'test.r' and sourcing
> > source("C:\\Documents and Settings\\jewell\\Desktop\\test.r", 
echo=TRUE)
> > a <- "reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy looooo
> +         ooooooooong chaaaaaaaaarrr"
> > a
> [1] "reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy looooo\n        ooooooooong 
> chaaaaaaaaarrr"
> 
> I don't think this is what the OP wanted.
> I guess he wants "reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyy loooooooooooooong 
> chaaaaaaaaarrr"
> 
> I don't know the answer (other than, as suggested by Peter Ehlers") to 
build 
> it bit by bit.
> 
> KJ
> 
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