One workaround is the idea in
http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03a/6855.html which, applied to this problem would be used by entering the snippets as inline data files and reading them into R variables which can then be cat'ed. You do have to preface each line of the inline data with a marker but that is trivial in sufficiently powerful text editors. --- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:09:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Rd] Parsing multi-line strings. Bug? Feature? I have an S-Plus library that I would like to port to R. The library sends a mix of static and dynamic output to an html file. For example cat(" ... Big block of HTML formatting code ... ") cat(dat()) cat(" More static text ") With S-Plus I can just cut and paste HTML code from other files into my S-Plus script file. This makes maintenance of the script fairly easy. The R parser chokes on this and requires strings to have a backslash for line continuation: f = function(){ sometext = " abc \ def" } Mark Bravington discussed the same issue (with comments about the documentation) here: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/02b/5199.html I would like to echo Mark's request that compatability with S-Plus be considered. Thanks Kevin Wright ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
