From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Aug  8 07:30:21 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:30:21 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Backslash in character string (PR#1887)
In-Reply-To: <200208080351.FAA07464@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0208080728270.25351-100000@gannet.stats>

This is not an error, but intentional.
Use cat to print unescaped output.

Please use R-help to ask questions about how to do things in R, and
consult the FAQ about what a bug is.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 Andreas.Kiermeier@adelaide.edu.au wrote:

> 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)
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