will reformulate the question: I use strsplit() to split a string at the blanks. e.g.
> strsplit("Split at blanks", " ") [[1]] [1] "Split" "at" "blanks" Now I would like to write something like a protected blank (like e.g. in LaTex) into the string that does not get split by strsplit() but still gives a blank when printed. E.g. > strsplit("Split%at blanks", " ") [[1]] [1] "Split at" "blanks" Is that possible? Am 20.07.2010 um 15:26 schrieb Duncan Murdoch: > On 20/07/2010 9:00 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote: >> is there a way to specify a blank in a string with special/escape >> characters? >> like: >> >> "and now a blank%%%%and text after the blank", >> >> where %%%% stand for the specification of the blank character > > The answer to your question is "yes", because you just did. But I > think you have something more in mind: what part of R should > recognize those special characters as blanks? > > Duncan Murdoch Mark Heckmann Dipl. Wirt.-Ing. cand. Psych. Vorstraße 93 B01 28359 Bremen Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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