[R] How to replace slashes with back slashes

Uwe Ligges
2005-01-19T14:18:40Z

Joerg Klausen wrote:

> Dear R-helpers
>
> I am running R2.0.0 under Windows 2000. I am compiling a number of file
paths into a simple text file that will be read by some other software we use.
Unfortunately, it  can only handle file paths with back slashes (MS Windows
convention), and from R, I get file paths with forward slashes. The following
didn't work.
>
>
>>gsub('/', '\\', 'c:/dir1/dir2/file.ext')
>
> [1] "c:dir1dir2file.ext"
>
>>gsub('/', '\\\\', 'c:/dir1/dir2/file.ext')
>
> [1] "c:\\dir1\\dir2\\file.ext"

The latter worked very well, it's just a matter of print()ing:

  cat(gsub('/', '\\\\', 'c:/dir1/dir2/file.ext'))

Uwe Ligges




> I have tried to find an answer on R-help, but didn't ;-(
>
> Thanks for helping me,
> Kind regards,
> J?rg
>
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