[R] remove leading slash

[David Winsemius]

On Jun 8, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Ben quant wrote:

> Hello,
>
> How do I change this:
>> cnt_str
> [1] "\002" "\001" "\102"
>
> ...to this:
>> cnt_str
> [1] "2" "1" "102"
>
> Having trouble because of this:
>> nchar(cnt_str[1])
> [1] 1

"\001" is ASCII cntrl-A, a single character.

?Quotes   # not the first, second or third place I looked but I knew I  
had seen it before.


>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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