cat() is probably what you want, but note that print()
has a 'quote=' argument that you could set to FALSE:

 print(qr2, quote = FALSE)

See ?print.default

  -Peter Ehlers


On 2010-06-30 13:16, Phil Spector wrote:
Paul -
When you print a string, it escapes the quotes with a backslash. That's
a property of the print() function,
not the string itself.
If you want to see the string, use cat(). The nchar()
function is also useful:

str1 <- '"xyz"'
qr2 <- paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)
[1] "abc\"xyz\""
cat(qr2,'\n')
abc"xyz"
nchar(qr2)
[1] 8

- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spec...@stat.berkeley.edu


On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Paul Evans wrote:

Hi,

How can I get double quotes embedded in the string?

Example:

--------------
str1 <- '"xyz"'

## desired output
# abc"xyz"

qr2 <- paste('abc',str1,sep='')
print(qr2)

-----------------

Actual output:

[1] "abc\"str\""

I also tried putting an escape sequence before the quote, but couldn't
get the
string that I want.


thanks,



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