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frank
frank

Reputation: 3608

How to print double quotes (") in R

I want to print to the screen double quotes (") in R, but it is not working. Typical regex escape characters are not working:

> print('"')
[1] "\""
> print('\"')
[1] "\""
> print('/"')
[1] "/\""
> print('`"')
[1] "`\""
> print('"xml"')
[1] "\"xml\""
> print('\"xml\"')
[1] "\"xml\""
> print('\\"xml\\"')
[1] "\\\"xml\\\""

I want it to return:

" "xml" "

which I will then use downstream.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 16672

Answers (2)

sebastianmm
sebastianmm

Reputation: 1176

With the help of the print parameter quote: 

print("\" \"xml\" \"", quote = FALSE)
> [1] " "xml" "

or

cat('"')

Upvotes: 9

Ani Menon
Ani Menon

Reputation: 28257

Use cat:

cat("\" \"xml\" \"")

OR

cat('" "','xml','" "')

Output:

" "xml" "

Alternative using noqoute:

 noquote(" \" \"xml\" \" ")

Output :

 " "xml" "

Another option using dQoute:

dQuote(" xml ")

Output :

"“ xml ”"

Upvotes: 7

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