[See in-line below] On 17-Nov-2013 22:38:30 Rolf Turner wrote: > > (1) The backslashes are not really there; they are an artefact of the R > print() function. > Try cat(u,"\n"). I think this might be an FAQ. > > (2) Is not your problem the fact that your are setting "replacement" > equal to the > thing you are trying to get rid of? I.e. don't you want > > v <- gsub(pattern='\"',replacement='',x=u) ??? >
> Either I am misunderstanding your intent or you need another cup of coffee. Is the above line a Fortune? > cheers, > > Rolf > > On 11/18/13 11:07, Erin Hodgess wrote: >> Dear R People: >> >> I'm sure that this is a very simple problem, but I have been wresting with >> it for some time. >> >> I have the following file that has the following one line: >> >> CRS("+init=epsg:28992") >> >> Fair enough. I scan it into R and get the following: >> >>> u >> [1] "CRS(\"+init=epsg:28992\")" >>> gsub(pattern='\"',replacement='"',x=u) >> [1] "CRS(\"+init=epsg:28992\")" >> >> I need to get rid of the extra quotation marks and slashes. I've tried all >> sorts of things, including gsub, as you see, but no good. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 17-Nov-2013 Time: 23:55:48 This message was sent by XFMail ______________________________________________ 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.