[R] Replace double slashes with single backslash

Bert Gunter bgunter@4567 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Mon Dec 28 22:19:35 CET 2020


"\" is an escape in R. See ?Quotes for details.

Bert Gunter

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On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:56 PM Anbu A <rquestion2020 using 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.
>
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