How to do multiple-line strings in R?

Question

If I have a string that contains line breaks, how can I code it in R without manually adding \n between lines and then print it with the line breaks? There should be multiple lines of output; each line of the original string should print as a separate line.

This is an example of how to do the task in Python:

string = """   Because I could   Not stop for Death   He gladly stopped for me   """ 

Example use case: I have a long SQL code with a bunch of line breaks and sub-commands. I want to enter the code as a single string to be evaluated later, but cleaning it up by hand would be difficult.

Answer 1

Nothing special is needed. Just a quote mark at the beginning and end.

In R:

x = "Because I could Not stop for Death He gladly stopped for me" x # [1] "Because I could\nNot stop for Death\nHe gladly stopped for me"  cat(x) # Because I could # Not stop for Death # He gladly stopped for me 

In Python:

>>> string = """ ...     Because I could ...     Not stop for Death ...     He gladly stopped for me ... """ >>> string '\n\tBecause I could\n\tNot stop for Death\n\tHe gladly stopped for me\n'