[R] Generating the Ctrl-M character

[Jeff Newmiller]

Wow, Deadpan David.

How about using the escape sequence "\r"?

Keep in mind that Ctrl-M is used as the end-of-line character on some operating systems, so accomplishing this may not be portable, and you didn't specify your operating system. On the three main platforms (*nix, Windows/DOS, and Mac), "\r" should work, but "\n" may get munged.
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David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>
>> Dear R-helpers,
>>
>> I want to append a Ctrl-M character to a string and then save it to  
>> a text
>> file.
>>
>> mystring<-"This is a test."
>>
>> # How do I add a Ctrl-M to it in the end ??
>>
>> cat(mystring,file="testfile")
>>
>
> > cntrl_m <- intToUtf8(13)
>
> > cat(cntrl_m,file="testfile")
>
>The resulting file seems to have a "blank line" in my editor.
>
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>David Winsemius, MD
>West Hartford, CT
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