[R] quotation marks and scan

[R. Michael Weylandt]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:42 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Did you mean to do 'nchar(x)' to show that \" was one character?
> 'length' gives the number of elements in a vector, which in this case
> is also one.
>
>  > x=c("\"", '\'')
>  > length(x)
>  [1] 2
>  > nchar(x)
>  [1] 1 1

D'oh! Fair enough,

MW