Agustin Lobo wrote:
I wish to write "" using paste(), but
paste() doesn't write anything, it constructs character vectors. It is
the auto-printing that is adding the backslashes. Use cat() to write
things without them:
> cat(paste("\"","Hola","\"",sep=""))
"Hola"
In fact, cat() is flexible and you could just use
cat("\"","Hola","\"",sep="")
> paste("\"","Hola","\"",sep="")
[1] "\"Hola\""
>
while the same approach works with ''
> paste("\'","Hola","\'",sep="")
[1] "'Hola'"
why this difference? how could I do it to get "Hola" ?
print() puts double quotes around strings when it prints them; that
means it needs backslash escapes on double quotes within the string, but
single quotes are fine.
Your vector did contain "Hola", but print() escaped the quotes.
Duncan Murdoch
Thanks
Agus
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