[R] Misunderstanding escape (backslash)
Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't '\\' be converted into '\' in my string? In my output (below), you can see that '\\' remains '\\'. term = mother\'s day term [1] mother's day term = mother\\\'s day term [1] mother\\'s day --- should be mother\'s day Thanks, Frank __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Misunderstanding escape (backslash)
On 10/16/06, Frank McCown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't '\\' be converted into '\' in my string? In my output (below), you can see that '\\' remains '\\'. term = mother\'s day term [1] mother's day term = mother\\\'s day term [1] mother\\'s day --- should be mother\'s day I think this is just a matter of interpetation of the output: strsplit(mother\\'s day, NULL)[[1]] [1] m o t h e r \\ ' s d a y cat(mother\\'s day, \n) mother\'s day nchar(mother\\'s day) [1] 13 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Misunderstanding escape (backslash)
Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/16/06, Frank McCown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't '\\' be converted into '\' in my string? In my output (below), you can see that '\\' remains '\\'. term = mother\'s day term [1] mother's day term = mother\\\'s day term [1] mother\\'s day --- should be mother\'s day I think this is just a matter of interpetation of the output: strsplit(mother\\'s day, NULL)[[1]] [1] m o t h e r \\ ' s d a y cat(mother\\'s day, \n) mother\'s day nchar(mother\\'s day) [1] 13 And check out the new FAQ 7.37 http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-does-backslash-behave-strangely-inside-strings_003f -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Misunderstanding escape (backslash)
And check out the new FAQ 7.37 http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-does-backslash-behave-strangely-inside-strings_003f Thanks, guys, for the help. Frank __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
