"Alexandra R. M. de Almeida" <alexandrarma at yahoo.com.br>
writes:
> Dear R users
>
> Some one knows how to read a windows file with the adress like
"D:\CSV\Work\test.csv" without change the "\" by
"/" by myself?!> There is some function or parameter that read like the adress windows
form.
> I tried to search somethig to substitute the "\" by
"/", but I don't find...
Well, there's no problem with the backslashed form except if you try
copying it literally into R source code. If you do, you run into
problems with R interpreting the backslash as an escape character,
which itself needs to be escaped ("doubling the backslashes"). You
might for instance proceed as follows:
> x <- readLines(,1) # input data on next line
D:\CSV\Work\test.csv> x
[1] "D:\\CSV\\Work\\test.csv"> mydata <- read.csv(x)
Notice that x as such has only single backslashes, it is just the
print routine that inserts escape characters:
> cat(x,"\n")
D:\CSV\Work\test.csv> nchar(x)
[1] 20
123456789*123456789*
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