Thanks, Matt!
"\x20" works great for me!

Am 25.04.2011 um 19:42 schrieb Matt Shotwell:

> I may have misread your original email. Whether you use a hex escape or
> a space character, the resulting string in memory is identical:
> 
>> identical("a\x20b", "a b")
> [1] TRUE
> 
> But, if you were to read a file containing the six characters "a
> \x20b" (say with readLines), then the six characters would be read into
> memory, and printed like this:
> 
> "a\\x20b"
> 
> That is, not with a space character substituted for \x20. So, now I'm
> not sure this is a solution.
> 
> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 12:24 -0500, Matt Shotwell wrote:
>> You can embed hex escapes in strings (except \x00). The value(s) that
>> you embed will depend on the character encoding used on you platform. If
>> this is UTF-8, or some other ASCII compatible encoding, \x20 will work:
>> 
>>> "foo\x20bar"
>> [1] "foo bar"
>>> 
>> 
>> For other locales, you might try charToRaw(" ") to see the binary (hex)
>> representation for the space character on your platform, and substitute
>> this sequence instead.
>> 
>> On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 15:01 +0200, Mark Heckmann wrote:
>>> Is there a blank space escape sequence in R, i.e. something like \sp etc. to produce a blank space?
>>> 
>>> TIA
>>> Mark
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