Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > > The problem is that I'm trying to create a path to use with a system() > call, and the command window will not work with the forward slash, > only with the standard backslash. I do understand that within R it > will work with either way, but not via the system call. I'm trying to > create a "generic" system() call that will work with an external > executable that is available on both windows and unix machines. >
Would .Platform$file.sep help you? I can't test this. Berend -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Querying-the-path-separator-tp3631806p3632161.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
