I see 'The R Inferno' being refered quiet often recently.  But it was now
pointed by Duncan Murdoch that for example the statement concerning
variables in a for loop is not correct in there (page 62).  As I can not
find any information about the book been reviewed by anyone I have a
question:  is it reliable resource for learning about R?  What is the
authority of Patrick Burns?  I would like to avoid spending much time on
learning from 'The R Inferno' to only later discover that it was wrong.

Mvh.
Marie



On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Patrick Burns <pburns@pburns.seanet.com>wrote:

> 'The R Inferno' pages 45-46.
>
>
> Patrick Burns
> patrick@burns-stat.com
> +44 (0)20 8525 0696
> http://www.burns-stat.com
> (home of "The R Inferno" and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")
>
> Nick Matzke wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Working at the R command line, how do I get strings to display e.g. tab or
>> newline characters as they should be displayed, rather than as e.g. \n or
>> \t?
>>
>> e.g.:
>> > x="\t"
>> > x="\t"
>> > x
>> [1] "\t"
>> > print(x)
>> [1] "\t"
>>
>>
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