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

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