Dear list,
After searching many old posts, I can't find the solution to a simple
problem.
can someone tell me how to create a character string with multiple backslashes,
as in:
file_dir <- c("C:\files\data\")
I need to create this string and then paste it to many files names for batch
processing in another software program. R won't accept the backslash and
removes it.
Thanks for any suggestions,
zack
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Try: file_dir <- "C:\\files\\data\\" On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:02 PM, zack holden <zack_holden at hotmail.com> wrote:> > Dear list, > > After searching many old posts, I can't find the solution to a simple problem. > > can someone tell me how to create a character string with multiple backslashes, as in: > > file_dir <- c("C:\files\data\") > > I need to create this string and then paste it to many files names for batch processing in another software program. R won't accept the backslash and removes it. > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > zack > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paran?-Brasil 25? 25' 40" S 49? 16' 22" O
You have to escape every backslash by a second backslash - try this:
f <- "C:\\files\\data\\" # create character string
write(f, "AAAA") # write to file
system("open -t AAAA") # see what happen to the character string
> file_dir <- c("C:\files\data\")
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Please read the R for Windows FAQs. Uwe Ligges zack holden wrote:> Dear list, > > After searching many old posts, I can't find the solution to a simple problem. > > can someone tell me how to create a character string with multiple backslashes, as in: > > file_dir <- c("C:\files\data\") > > I need to create this string and then paste it to many files names for batch processing in another software program. R won't accept the backslash and removes it. > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > zack > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.