hello,
thank you for your answer!
yes, now it is working!
marion

2011/9/19 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>

> On 11-09-19 7:30 AM, Marion Wenty wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> could someone help me with this problem?:
>>
>> I would like to create a latex-script inside of a character vector in
>> order
>> to being able to compilate it within latex in the end.
>>
>> if i try the following commands:
>>
>> l1<- "Hello world"
>> latexscript<- paste("\c",l1,"\c")
>>
>> ... I get an error message. I think the problem is that r sees \c as a
>> command.
>>
>> How can I get
>>
>> "\c Hello world \c"
>>
>> as a result without getting the error message?
>>
>
> Here's the long answer:
>
> R uses \ as an "escape character", which is different from the way LaTeX
> uses it.  The string "\n" contains a single character (a newline character.
>  When you say "\c", the parser thinks you are asking for a single character
> which is written as \c, but there isn't one, so you get the error message.
>
> To put the characters \c into a string, you need to escape the backslash,
> i.e. use "\\c".  That's a two character string.  It will print as "\\c"
> using print(), but if you use cat() you will see the actual characters \c.
>
> The short answer is:
>
>
> latexscript <- paste("\\c", l1, "\\c")
> cat(latexscript, "\n")
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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