Escape sequence in terminal or iTerm to jump to absolute column? Is there an escape sequence which I can use to jump to an absolute column in OS X Yosemite Terminal or iTerm?

In other words:

echo 12345678901234567890
echo \StartAtColumn10 A10 \StartAtColumn2 B2


Would produce the following output:

12345678901234567890
 B2      A10


I want to send this code from R to format progress output.
You can use \r to return to the beginning of the line (column 1) and then \e[nC to move right n characters (column n+1). So:

$ echo 12345678901234567890; echo $'\r\e[9CA10' $'\r\e[1CB2'
12345678901234567890
 B2      A10