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On 12/11/2013 06:13, Luca Meyer wrote:> Hi,
>
> I have a piece of code sitting on a dropbox directory and haev installed R
> 3.0.2 on 2 machines: one MacBook Pro and one Sony Vaio pc.
>
> Now, when I use
>
> source("/Users/....R")
>
> to call the script from the Mac no problems, but when I use
>
> source("C:\Users\...R")
>
> to call the script from the Sony Vaio I get the following:
>
> Error: '\U' used without hex digits in character string starting
"'C:\U"
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Luca
>
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