[R] backslash

[Uwe Ligges]

On 22 May 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Helgi Tomasson <helgito at hi.is> writes:
> 
> > Hi R-people
> > 
> > I am trying to have R write latex-code.
> > 
> > "\begin{tabular}"
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > "\end{tabular}
> > 
> > do not produce similar results.  I would like to something like
> > 
> > write("\begin{tabular} ,file=. . .)
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > write("\end{tabular},file=. . .)
> 
> Hmmm. Not too clear what your problem is but if something is eating
> your backslashes, chances are that you just need to double them, as in
> 
> > cat("\\help\n")
> \help
> >
> 
> In some rare cases you need to redouble them, but this is not one of
> them, I think....

Oh. It is one of these cases , I think:
\b means: Backspace!

To write something with "\" in it, it is much safer to double the "\"
every time.

Regards,
Uwe Ligges
 
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