R help - Jan 2009 - tab characters

Hi all,

Working at the R command line, how do I get strings to display e.g. tab 
or newline characters as they should be displayed, rather than as e.g. 
\n or \t?

e.g.:
 > x="\t"
 > x="\t"
 > x
[1] "\t"
 > print(x)
[1] "\t"

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===================================================Nicholas J. Matzke
Ph.D. student, Graduate Student Researcher
Huelsenbeck Lab
Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics
4151 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building)
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

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"[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people 
thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that 
thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth 
is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

Isaac Asimov (1989). "The Relativity of Wrong." The Skeptical
Inquirer,
14(1), 35-44. Fall 1989.
http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm

?cat
> x <- '\t'
> print(x)
[1] "\t"
> cat(x)
        >


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Nick Matzke <matzke at berkeley.edu>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Working at the R command line, how do I get strings to display e.g. tab or
> newline characters as they should be displayed, rather than as e.g. \n or
> \t?
>
> e.g.:
>> x="\t"
>> x="\t"
>> x
> [1] "\t"
>> print(x)
> [1] "\t"
>
> --
> ===================================================> Nicholas J. Matzke
> Ph.D. student, Graduate Student Researcher
> Huelsenbeck Lab
> Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics
> 4151 VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building)
> Department of Integrative Biology
> University of California, Berkeley
>
> Lab websites:
> http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/lab_detail.php?lab=54
> http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/hlab.html
> Dept. personal page:
> http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/students/person_detail.php?person=370
> Lab personal page: http://fisher.berkeley.edu/cteg/members/matzke.html
> Lab phone: 510-643-6299
> Dept. fax: 510-643-6264
> Cell phone: 510-301-0179
> Email: matzke at berkeley.edu
>
> Mailing address:
> Department of Integrative Biology
> 3060 VLSB #3140
> Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> "[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When
people
> thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that
> thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is
> flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
>
> Isaac Asimov (1989). "The Relativity of Wrong." The Skeptical
Inquirer,
> 14(1), 35-44. Fall 1989.
> http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
>
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Nick Matzke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Working at the R command line, how do I get strings to display e.g. 
> tab or newline characters as they should be displayed, rather than as 
> e.g. \n or \t?
>
> e.g.:
> > x="\t"
> > x="\t"
> > x
> [1] "\t"
> > print(x)
> [1] "\t"
>