[R] line breaks in recode

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Nothing to do with recode: you cannot have line breaks inside quoted 
strings.

> "c(101,25,167,45,75)=25;
Error: syntax error
>              c(104,51)=51"
Error: syntax error


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Bernd Weiss wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> it seems to be that 'recode' can't handle any line breaks in its code.
> 
> The following command causes no problem:
> 
> datameta$smpid.r <- 
> recode(datameta$smpid,"c(101,25,167,45,75)=25;c(104,51)=51")
> 
> But if I type ...
> 
> datameta$smpid.r <-recode(datameta$smpid,
> 	"c(101,25,167,45,75)=25;
>              c(104,51)=51")
> 
> ... the result is a syntax error. 
> 
> TIA
> 
> Bernd
> 

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