On 11-08-12 4:52 AM, mafia88 wrote:
Hi,
I think it is not possible in R but I rather ask before giving up:
What I have: I have copied "C:\Program Files\R" into my clipboard.
What I want: setwd(transform("C:\Program Files\R")) where the function
transform should change the "C:\Program Files\R" from my clipboard to
"C:\\Program Files\\R" so that R can handle it. Is this possible?
No, but you shouldn't be doing that. You should read the string from
the clipboard as a string, not as R code, because it's a string, not R code.
For example, if your clipboard contains that string,
dir <- readClipboard()
setwd(dir)
I've tried with gsub("\\", "\\\\", "C:\Program Files\R") but failed, then
tried first to split the full clipboard string cause \P is reserved in R but
with strsplit("C:\Program Files\R", "") I also failed.
Therefore the question: It is really necessary to manually add a second "\"
in "C:\Program Files\R", so that setwd("C:\\Program Files\\R") can change my
work directory?
No. You only want a single backslash in the string. The problem is
that you are using the parser: to get the parser to create a string
with a single backslash in it, you need to give two to the parser.
So don't use the parser.
Duncan Murdoch
Cause I am getting tired making this manually... yes I know I can use the
Search&Replace function from the Editor but I thought R can do everything?
I hope someone could help me :(
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