[R] How to get the string '\'?

[Linlin Yan]

Regular expression needs double the '\' again, so try this:
gsub('/','\\\\',string)

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> My question was from replacing a pattern by '\\'. How to replace '/'
> in string by '\'?
>
> string='abc/efg'
> gsub('/','\\',string)
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