On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Firas Swidan wrote:

Hi,
I have a small R question: how to print a single "\" character? I have the
following results:
print("\") does not work

print("\\")
[1] "\\"

Use cat("\\").

I need to make the following substitution as well, but it does not work
either:
sub("_","\_","g_g")
[1] "g_g"

Use sub("_","\\\\_","g_g")

If you print() the result it will look as though it has a double \, but that's an optical illusion. cat() will show it correctly with a single \ (and nchar() will confirm that it has 4 characters).

        -thomas

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