"Peter B. Mandeville" <mandevip at deimos.tc.uaslp.mx> writes:
>
> For
> dat <- read.table("c:\claims.dat",header=T)
> R version 0.62 Beta (june 9, 1998)for Windows 95 reports
> Error: "scan" can't open file
> but
> dat <- read.table("c:\\claims.dat",header=T)
> works.
>
Yes. This is a consequence of R's (C-style) string handling in
general. '\' is an escape character, so that you e.g. can enter a
newline as "\n". When you really need a '\', you have to
escape it
with another '\'. In filenames, you can also rotate it 90 degrees
("c:/claims.dat")
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