[R] replace double backslash with singel backslash

Michael Friendly
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:36:39 -0000

On 11/4/2011 5:35 AM, Kay Cichini wrote:
> I want to replace \\ with \ in:
> str<-
>
"C:\\DOKUME~1\\u0327336\\LOKALE~1\\Temp\\RtmpQ5NJ8X\\TIRIS_PICS\\1_Img.jpg"
>
> and tried:
> gsub("\\\\", "\\", str)
>
> but this removes the \\ without replacing them by \
>

You may be able to avoid this simply by using forward slashes in path
names. Otherwise,
?normalizePath
may help.


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