[R] Thanks for: no response of the tab key

[Tord Snall]

Dear Götz Wiegand and Corey Moffet,

Thanks for answering while I went to get a cup of coffee. This list is
really excellent!

The answer, for you other beginners, is 

in R a tab is represented "\t"

Tord


>
>Dear all,
>I want to produce a tab separated text file but R 1.6.2 does not respond to
>the tab key on my keyboard. 
>
>When I paste:
>write.table(alla.obt.rar0, "obt.txt", sep="	", quote=F, row.names=F)
>
>into the console it looks like this:
>
>write.table(alla.obt.rar0, "obt.txt", sep="", quote=F, row.names=F)
>
>Has anyone had a similar problem? 
>
>I use Win Xp on a Dell machine.
>
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>
>Sincerely,
>Tord

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