[R] Find and replace backslashes XXXX

[Duncan Murdoch]

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 <istazahn at 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.abner99 at 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
>>>
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