R help - May 2010 - escape character OK in R environment, fails in R CMD CHECK

Hi,
I am trying to check a package via R CMD CHECK and it is failing with

Error: '\s' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting
"\s"

The culprit looks something like this:

gsub('\\s\\(.*\\)',"","this is a (test, man) dude")

which is correctly escaped with the "\\"'s   -- but it seems that
R CMD
CHECK is pre-escaping the string when it reads in the code to check it.

How do I get R CMD CHECK to let the "\\s" 's through?

Thanks.

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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:08 PM, David Reiss <dreiss at
systemsbiology.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to check a package via R CMD CHECK and it is failing with
>
> Error: '\s' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting
"\s"
>
> The culprit looks something like this:
>
> gsub('\\s\\(.*\\)',"","this is a (test, man)
dude")
>
> which is correctly escaped with the "\\"'s ? -- but it seems
that R CMD
> CHECK is pre-escaping the string when it reads in the code to check it.
>
> How do I get R CMD CHECK to let the "\\s" 's through?
>
> Thanks.
>
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>
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