On Apr 29, 2013, at 6:50 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Apr 29, 2013, at 6:41 PM, jpm miao wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to print a string vertically. For example, I would like to print
>> "abcd" as "a\nb\nc\nd"
>>
>> Is there a function in R such that
>>
>> Input: "abcd"
>> Output: "a\nb\nc\nd"?
>
>> do.call( paste, list( strsplit("abcd", "")[[1]] , collapse="\\n"))
> [1] "a\\nb\\nc\\nd"
>
> Notice that I am refusing to acquiese by your request because I do not think
> you understand how escaped characters are represented in R. (In programming
> the customer is not always right.)
Not is the programmer. I see that:
cat( "a\nb\nc\nd")
... is probably what you wanted and my answer was not. Apologies for the noise.
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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