From Andreas.Kiermeier@adelaide.edu.au  Thu Aug  8 04:51:24 2002
From: Andreas.Kiermeier@adelaide.edu.au (Andreas.Kiermeier@adelaide.edu.au)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 05:51:24 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Backslash in character string (PR#1887)
Message-ID: <200208080351.FAA07464@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Andreas Kiermeier
Version: 1.5.1
OS: NT4.0
Submission from: (NULL) (129.127.41.28)


R appears not to be able to print a single backslash in a string, see example
session below.  The same happens on Solaris 2.6 using R 1.5.1.

> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    5.1            
year     2002           
month    06             
day      17             
language R              
> "\"
Error: syntax error
> "\\"
[1] "\\"
> "\lambda"
[1] "lambda"
> "\\lambda"
[1] "\\lambda"
> "\134lambda"
[1] "\\lambda"


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Backslash in character string (PR#1887)
Andreas.Kiermeier@adelaide.edu.au