"\" is an escape in R. See ?Quotes for details. Bert Gunter
"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:56 PM Anbu A <rquestion2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I am able to replace "r" with "x" for the word "Users" just for a test run. > *Code: newlist %>% mutate(.,new_col=str_replace(fpath,"r","x")) *- this > works fine > But when I try to replace "\\" with "\". > *newlist %>% mutate(.,new_col=str_replace(fpath,"\\","\")) *, I get a > prompt ">" to complete the code. Not working. There is something on > backslashes to be "masked". > Any help would be appreciated. > > fpath new_col > 1 C:\\Users\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ C:\\Usexs\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ > 2 C:\\Users\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ C:\\Usexs\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ > 3 C:\\Users\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ C:\\Usexs\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ > 4 C:\\Users\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ C:\\Usexs\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ > 5 C:\\Users\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ C:\\Usexs\\Anbu\\Desktop\\sas\\ > > Thanks, > Anbu. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
