Backslashes in character strings need to be doubled. Your "\b" is a backspace. "\\" is a backslash.
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.html#Literal-constants On 16/06/09 17:12, Stephen J. Barr wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to create a matrix with one of the columns named > $\delta$. I have also created columns $\beta_1$ , $\beta_2$, etc. > However, it seems like \d is an escape sequence which gets > automatically removed. (Using these names such that they work right in > xtable -> latex) > > colnames(simpleReg.mat)<- c("$\beta_1$","$SE(\beta_1)$", "$\beta_2$", > "$SE(\beta_2)$", "$\delta$", "$SE(\\delta)$") > Warning messages: > 1: '\d' is an unrecognized escape in a character string > 2: unrecognized escape removed from "$\delta$" > > Is there a way to get R to not remove the unrecognized escape? > > Thanks, > -stephen > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
