On 27/05/2015 8:55 AM, Dan Abner wrote: > Hi Ista, > > Is there no way to not escape the backslash in the pathway?
You don't need to escape it if you read it from a file, get it from list.files(), etc. You only need to escape it if you are writing a literal string in R code. Duncan Murdoch The > pathway is going to change and will become very long and I need to do > this programmatically. Beside, escaping the backslash defeats the > purpose of using gsub. If I could do this manually each and every > time, I would change simply change the backslash to a forward slash > and therefore not need gsub at all... > > Thanks, > > Dan > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Escape the backslash with another backslash, i.e., >> >> gsub("\\","/","X:\\Classes\\TT\\Automation", fixed = TRUE) >> >> best, >> Ista >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Dan Abner <dan.abne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I realize that the backslash is an escape character in R, therefore, I >>> am trying to replace it with a forward slash. Can someone please >>> suggest how to get this code to work? >>> >>>> lib<-gsub("\","/","X:\Classes\TT\Automation") >>> Error: unexpected symbol in "lib<-gsub("\","/","X" >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.