r cat command generate output with /t interpreted as /t not tab

Question

I want to use the following commands to generate an output like "I want to test\ttab", but the output is "I want to test tab". I want \t to be there rather than being interpreted as a tab delimiter. Is there a way to do this? Can anyone help? Thank you very much in advance!

sink(paste("test","sh",sep="."))
cat(paste0("I want to test","\t","tab"))
cat("\n")
sink()

Thanks, R

Lucas Fortini · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-06T00:29:53.420

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Add simply an extra slash to escape the following special character:

cat(paste0("I want to test","\\t","tab"))
cat("\n")

edited Nov 06 '15 at 00:29

answered Nov 05 '15 at 23:24

Lucas Fortini

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Thank you very much! That helps! – user3512961 Nov 06 '15 at 14:51
I am glad. If it answered your question, please check it as the right answer. – Lucas Fortini Nov 06 '15 at 16:17

r cat command generate output with /t interpreted as /t not tab

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