[R] Creating/Reading a complex string in R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 19/07/2017 11:41 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> I think the whole premise of this question is flawed. If you want to work with this string as data,  then read it in from a separate file using readLines. If it is fixed data that you want to be part of your program, then invest the effort to escape the odd characters and be done with it. But using backticks is a bad idea because they ate not just another kind of quote.
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I agree.

Duncan Murdoch