[R] Creating/Reading a complex string in R

Tue Jul 18 18:57:58 CEST 2017

Try:

String = '<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript"     <script type="text/javascript">
      mystatement(\'current\', {\'pac\':[\'\']});
      mystatement;'

To embed a single ' mark in a string delimited by ' marks, you must
"escape" them by prefixing them with a back-slash \.

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>
> String = '<html>
+   <head>
+     <script type="text/javascript"     <script type="text/javascript">
+       mystatement(\'current\', {\'pac\':[\'\']});
+       mystatement;'
> String
[1] "<html>\n  <head>\n    <script type=\"text/javascript\"     <script
type=\"text/javascript\">\n      mystatement('current', {'pac':['']});\n
   mystatement;"

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Christofer Bogaso <
bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Let say I have below string (arbitrary)
>
> <html>
>   <head>
>     <script type="text/javascript"     <script type="text/javascript">
>       mystatement('current', {'pac':['']});
>       mystatement;
>
>
> I want to pass above string to some R variable for further analysis.
> So I have tried below :
>
> String = '<html>
>   <head>
>     <script type="text/javascript"     <script type="text/javascript">
>       mystatement('current', {'pac':['']});
>       mystatement;'
>
> It is not clearly working as I am getting below error :
>
> > String = '<html>
>
> +   <head>
>
> +     <script type="text/javascript"     <script type="text/javascript">
>
> +       mystatement('current', {'pac':['']});
>
> Error: unexpected symbol in:
>
> "    <script type="text/javascript"     <script type="text/javascript">
>
>       mystatement('current"
>
> >       mystatement;'
>
> Error: object 'mystatement' not found
>
> >
>
>
> Any pointer how to create my string 'String' based on above would be
> highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
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