[R] cat() and \r et al. escape sequences - are there more?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See ?Quotes.

On 22/01/2015 13:32, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just discovered \r and \t
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> cat(LETTERS, "\n")
> A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
>>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> cat(LETTERS, "\r", letters, "\n")
>   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> and
> \a as alert
> \b as backspace
> \f as form-feed
> \n as newline
> \r as carriage-return
> \t as tab
> \v as vertical-tab
>
> are there more of these escape sequences?
>
> Especially, Can I position the cursor at a specific column? I would like
> to do this to show progress in an analysis done with mclapply() on
> multiple cores and, preferably, display each core (7) at a fixed
> position in a line.

How these are interpreted is a matter for the terminal/console. Some 
terminals have escape sequences to do that, but most consoles do not.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>
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