R help - Apr 2011 - do not execute newline command

Hi R-users,

To automate the creation of scripts, I converted the code (example below) into a
character string and wrote the object to a file:

Repeat <- "
myvec <- c(1:12)
cat('vector= ', myvec, '\n')
"

write (Repeat, 'yourpath/test.R')

the problem is that one line of the code is a "cat" command. In the
output file (i.e. test.R), the newline symbol gets executed and I don't want
that.

Any idea on how to do that?
Thanks
Lorenzo


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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Lorenzo Cattarino
<l.cattarino at uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi R-users,
>
> To automate the creation of scripts, I converted the code (example below)
into a character string and wrote the object to a file:
>
> Repeat <- "
> myvec <- c(1:12)
> cat('vector= ', myvec, '\n')
> "
>
> write (Repeat, 'yourpath/test.R')
>
> the problem is that one line of the code is a "cat" command. In
the output file (i.e. test.R), the newline symbol gets executed and I don't
want that.
>
> Any idea on how to do that?
You can "escape" the newline symbol (i.e., write an extra \ before
it):

Repeat <- "
myvec <- c(1:12)
cat('vector= ', myvec, '\\n')
"

write (Repeat, 'test.R')


> Thanks
> Lorenzo
>
>
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