Regular expression needs double the '\' again, so try this: gsub('/','\\\\',string)
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > My question was from replacing a pattern by '\\'. How to replace '/' > in string by '\'? > > string='abc/efg' > gsub('/','\\',string) > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.