All About Strings

Creating Character Strings

In R, we can express character strings by surrounding text with double quotes:

“learning is fun”,

or we can also surround text with single quotes:

‘learning is fun’.

Empty String

The most basic type of string is the empty string produced by consecutive quotation marks: "".

"" is a string with no characters in it, hence the name empty string:

Escape Sequences

A sequence that starts with a \ in a string is called an escape sequence. It allows us ...