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Nesting more than two types of quotes in R

I would like to know how to accommodate more than two types of quotes in a same row in R. Let´s say that I want to print:

'first-quote-type1 "first-quote-type2 "second-quote-type2 'sencond-quote-type1

Using one quote in the beginning and one in the end we have:

print("'first-quote-type1 "first-quote-type2 "second-quote-type2 'sencond-quote-type1")

Error: unexpected symbol in "print("'first-quote-type1 "first"

I tried to include triple quotes as required in Python in this cases:

print(''''first-quote-type1 "first-quote-type2 "second-quote-type2 'sencond-quote-type1''')

print("""'first-quote-type1 "first-quote-type2 "second-quote-type2 'sencond-quote-type1""")

However, I also got a similar error. Some idea how to make this syntax work in R?

Solution

  • To use a quote within a quote you can escape the quote character with a backslash

    print("the man said \"hello\"")

    However, the print function in R will always escape character. To not show the escaped character use cat() instead

    so...

    cat("the man said \"hello\"") will return the man said "hello"