R help - Mar 2003 - strings spanning multiple lines

I'd like to specify strings spanning multiple lines (ie too long to
fit in a single line without spoiling pretty-printed R code). I tried
the following way:
> a <- "multiple \
+ lines"

but 
> print(a)
[1] "multiple \nlines"

How could I avoid the extra linebreak ("\n")?

Regards,

Tamas Papp

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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Tamas Papp wrote:
> I'd like to specify strings spanning multiple lines (ie too long to
> fit in a single line without spoiling pretty-printed R code). I tried
> the following way:
> 
> > a <- "multiple \
> + lines"
> 
> but 
> 
> > print(a)
> [1] "multiple \nlines"
> 
> How could I avoid the extra linebreak ("\n")?
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