[R] tab characters

[Patrick Burns]

'The R Inferno' pages 45-46.


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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"
>