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How do I use the new line character in R?
myStringVariable <- "Very Nice ! I like"; myStringVariabel <- paste(myStringVariable, "\n", sep=""); The above code DOESN'T work
P.S There's significant challenges when googling this kind of stuff since the query "R new line character" does seem to confuse google. I really wish R had a different name.
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The most commonly used are "\t" for TAB, "\n" for new-line, and "\\" for a (single) backslash character.
The escape sequence \n means newline. When a newline appears in the string output by a printf, the newline causes the cursor to position to the beginning of the next line on the screen.
Explanation. The print() function has an optional keyword argument for the end of the string, called end , which defaults to the OS's newline character, for eg. \n . So, when you're calling print('hello') , Python is actually printing 'hello' + '\n' .
Newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in a character encoding specification (e.g., ASCII, EBCDIC) that is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one.
The nature of R means that you're never going to have a newline in a character vector when you simply print it out.
> print("hello\nworld\n") [1] "hello\nworld\n" That is, the newlines are in the string, they just don't get printed as new lines. However, you can use other functions if you want to print them, such as cat:
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