Escape Control Characters

Escapes control characters with back slashes, such that they are safe to print. Escaped characters are:

code	symbol	description
\0x07	\a	bell
\0x08	\b	backspace
\0x09	\t	horizontal tab
\0x0a	\n	line feed
\0x0b	\v	vertical tab
\0x0c	\f	form feed
\0x0d	\r	carriage return
\0x22	\"	double quote
\0x27	\'	single quote
\0x5c	\\	back slash

Usage

escape_cntrl(x, escape_quotes = c("none", "single", "double", "both"))

Arguments

x

A character vector.

escape_quotes

Should quotes be escaped? One of none, single, double, or both.

Value

A character vector with escaped control characters.

Examples

escape_cntrl(c('foo\nbar\t\tbazz', 'foo\abar'))
#> [1] "foo\\nbar\\t\\tbazz" "foo\\abar"