[R] How to pass a character string with a hyphen

[Robert Knight]

Strip the left characters and strip the right characters into their own
variables using one of the methods that can do that.  Then pass it using
something like paste(left, "-", right).

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 2:43 PM Jeff Reichman <reichmanj using sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> How does one pass a character string containing a hyphen? I have a function
> that accesses an api if I hard code the object, for example
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> it works but when I pass the key  code to the function (say something like
> key_code <- code_input)  it returns only xxxx. So R is seeing a string with
> a negative operator I'm assuming
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> Jeff
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