R help - Dec 2001 - Difference in lexical analysis of strings in R and S-PLUS?

It appears that R (1.3.1, Solaris and Windows) tokenizes strings differently
than S-PLUS (6 on Solaris and Windows).

S-PLUS:
> foo <- "abc
Continue string: def"
> cat(foo)
abc
def>

R:

> foo <- "abc
Error: syntax error
>
This difference occurs in source'd files as well. Is there a way to get the
S-PLUS's (and perl's, lisp's, etc.) view of strings, or am I going
to have
to go thru my many, many files and escape multi-line strings with
backslashes? What am I missing here?

David O Nelson, Ph.D. (daven at llnl.gov)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Box 808, L-441
Livermore CA 94551

ph:  +1.925.423.8898
fax: +1.925.422.2282


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