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.