Things like hard-tabs are usually going to vary by text-editor / GUI. Python is pretty peculiar in its use of tabs, so I wouldn't expect R to replicate. My Matlab license is buggy right now, but I think you'd see similar behavior there, while interactive Ruby gives an autocomplete. I think that hits the big interactive languages that I use. I guess my point is I think Python is the odd man out as a result of its special tab/indentation structure, though I'd welcome correction/elaboration because its not something I've looked at before.
Are the tabs important? Perhaps we can help with a work around Michael On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Johnny Paulo <johnny.jp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to parse some information from a text, where fields are tab > separated. > When I copy the text into an R session (under emacs) like: > mystring <- "field1 field2 field3" > the tab character is replaced by a single space! > For ex, if I type mystring, I get: > "field1 field2 field3" > The tabs have disappeared!!! > > I checked with Python that the text I copied was tab separated indeed > > so I did the same, in a Python session: > mystring = "field1 field2 field3" > and when I type mystring, I get the expected: > "field1\tfield2\tfield3" > > I am quite new to R, and there is something I am missing here. > > Any light will be highly appreciated. > > Regards > > Johnny > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
