[R] Generating the Ctrl-M character

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Fri Nov 11 04:57:36 CET 2011


On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Ashim Kapoor wrote:

> Dear R-helpers,
>
> I want to append a Ctrl-M character to a string and then save it to  
> a text
> file.
>
> mystring<-"This is a test."
>
> # How do I add a Ctrl-M to it in the end ??
>
> cat(mystring,file="testfile")
>

 > cntrl_m <- intToUtf8(13)

 > cat(cntrl_m,file="testfile")

The resulting file seems to have a "blank line" in my editor.

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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