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2007 Jun 20
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clients and carriage returns
...ased editors, which are using \r\n for EOL. I had not realized this
before, but R throws a parse error when it sees \r, even on a Win32 OS.
Near as I can tell browsing R source, this is true on all operating
systems -- e.g. gram.y seems to look only for \n, and in
src/gnuwin32/graphapp/events.c:handle_char(), \r is actively replaced
with \n. I didn't find any specific mention of EOL/newline in "Writing R
Extensions", and only reference to related escape sequences in "R
Language Definition".
My questions:
- Is it safe (and indeed proper) for PL/R to always convert \r\n to...