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.
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'