[R] splitstr problem

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On 18 Feb 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Matthew Wiener <mcw at ln.nimh.nih.gov> writes:
> 
> 
> > unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\."))
> > ## [1] "a" "b" "c"
> <doesn't work>
> 
> > Is there some way to do what's intended?
> 
> More backslashes ("\." is the same as "."):
> 
> unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\\."))
> 
> (and to get that in formatted docs, the source needs to say
> 
> unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\\\\."))
> 
> which it didn't)

(And even if it had it would have come out wrong in latex, at least).

> It's fixed in the snapshots already.

As is the formatting.

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