Maybe it's a Linux problem:
> cat("abc\b")
ab> cat("abc\b\n")
abc
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> Sys.info()
sysname
"Linux"
release
"3.11.0-12-generic"
version
"#19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013"
nodename
"XXXXX"
machine
"x86_64"
login
"XXXXX"
user
"XXXXX"
effective_user
"XXXXX"
>
On 1 November 2013 19:54, Dennis Murphy <djmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't reproduce the error, either:
>
> > cat("abc\b")
> ab> cat("abc\b\n")
> ab
> >
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> <package info snipped for brevity>
>
> Dennis
>
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