R help - May 2004 - replacing backslashes with slashes using gsub

Hi!

I am trying to replace backslashes with slashes using gsub (R1.9.0 on XP)

gsub("\\\\","/","D:\Prog\R\rw1090\library\cluster\libs")
[1] "D:ProgR\rw1090libraryclusterlibs"

?

Sincerely Eryk

>
gsub("\\\\","/","D:\Prog\R\rw1090\library\cluster\libs")
> [1] "D:ProgR\rw1090libraryclusterlibs"
Probably not the best way, but what about escaping all the backslashes in
the original string?
 gsub("\\\\","/","D:\\Prog\\R\\rw1090\\library\\cluster\\libs")