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Full_Name: Magnus Torfason Version: 2.7.0 OS: Windows Vista Submission from: (NULL) (128.59.140.167) Each time a string is edited in the data editor (on Windows at least), any pairs of backslashes (an escaped backslash) are duplicated on each edit of the string. Note that one must actually double click the value for the bug to show up. Behavior/Replication: > # Create data frame >

Hello! I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash? To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with echo '\' in bash, ksh, etc. Regards, Chip Campbell

Hello everybody, this might be a trivial question, but I have been unable to find this using Google. I am trying to replace double backslashes with single backslashes using gsub. There seems to be some unexpected behaviour with regards to the replacement string "\\". The following example uses the string C:\\ which should be converted to C:\ . > gsub("\\\\",

I am trying to check for backslashes in data, then remove them when I find them, but am having a difficult time figuring out the best way to do it. I know the backslash is the escape character in R, and I should be able to use 'gsub' to accomplish this, but I all I seem to be getting are errors. For example: If entry is: "Hello\World" I want: "HelloWorld"

Dear developeRs, I thought that backslashes can be escaped in the usual way (and I think I did this before) but I can't see why R> gsub("\\", "x", "\alpha") Error in gsub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed, useBytes) : invalid regular expression '\' gives an error. Or am I just blind? Best, Torsten R> version

I've just started using AMP and found that I have a problem with escaped characters in config files. In particular, I have a custom config item that needs a semicolon in... SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=info=auto-answer;delay=1) To get the part of the line after the ; to be accepted by Asterisk as a non-comment it needs to be escaped with a backslash, but I have found that I need to put two

I find that Sys.glob() doesn't like UNC paths where the initial slashes are backslashes. The help page for Sys.glob() doesn't specificly mention UNC paths, but does say: "File paths in Windows are interpreted with separator \ or /." Is the failure to treat a path beginning with a double-backslash as a UNC network drive path the intended behavior? E.g., on a Windows system

Hi R-devels, I noticed that you are working quite actively on the new Rd-parser and have made it the default renderer in R-2.10.0dev. So I would like to come back on an issue I have already raised on this list last November ("Two minor escaping issues using \preformatted{....} in Rd format") My setting has slightly changed as \preformatted, AFAICS is not supported within \describe

i download samba3.02 source tar package from samba.org , do the below steps on my freebsd5.2 #./configure --with-mysql-prefix=/usr/local/mysql #.... #make #.... #make install #..... after install, i add a user: #pdbedit -a billy then use the simple smb.conf [global] security=user [tmp] path=/tmp guest ok=yes everything is ok, i can access this samba server using windows client.

Hello Everyone, I am an avid Sweave user and I am trying to pretty print floating point numbers for latex output. For example in my document, I would like: 4.2\cdot 10^-{8} Instead of: 4.2e-08 The Hmisc package has a nice function for doing this- but Hmisc has a ton of dependencies and has proved very unportable to the various machines I work on. So, I set out to write my own function that

I noticed this issue in stringr::str_replace, but it also affects sub() in base R. If the pattern in a call to one of these needs to be a regular expression, then backslashes in the replacement text are treated specially. For example, gsub("a|b", "\\", "abcdef") gives "def", not "\\\\def" as I wanted. To get the latter, I need to escape

Hi, Back in June I posted the message below, but had no replies. I've made a little progress since then so this is to update anyone interested (!) and to ask for comments. Brief problem statement: Under Windows, some parts of R don't handle UNC paths beginning with backslashes. Specifically a) Sys.glob() fails to find some files breaking (e.g.) Rcmdr plugins

I'm comparing R-1.3.0 on Solaris 2.6 to R-1.3.1 on WindowsNT. The following 5-line script returns TRUE on Unix but FALSE on NT: fnam <- tempfile() file.create(fnam) txt <- paste("file.exists(\"", fnam, "\")", sep="") expr <- parse(text=txt) eval(expr) The issue seems to be that backslashes get lost in the parsing. A workaround is to change

The following code works, to gsub single quotes to double quotes: line <- gsub("'", '"', line) (that's a single quote within doubles then a double within singles if your viewer's font is not good). But The R Language Manual tells me that Quotes and other special characters within strings are specified using escape sequences: \' single quote \"

Greeting R Community, I am a windows user so this problem may be specific to windows. I often want to source files from within R such as: C:\Users\Rinker\Desktop\Research & Law\Data\School Data 09-10. To source this file I need to go through the path and replace all the backslashes (\) with forward slashes (/). I usually do this in MS Word using the replace option, however, I'd like

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

I thought that I can use metacharacters such as \w to match word characters with one backslash. But for some reason, I need to include two backslashes. > grepl(pattern='\w', x="what") Error: '\w' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "\w" > grepl(pattern='\\w', x="what") [1] TRUE I can't find the reason for this

How can I get a single backslash in a character string? My goal is to escape dots in a string that will be used as a regular expression. I thought I could do it this way: gsub(".", "\\.", x) Unfortunately, "\\" does not represent a literal backslash as I expected, but rather a pair of backslashes: > "\\." [1] "\\." > "\\" [1]

Hi, I'm trying to build a vector of latex commands. However, I need the command strings to begin with a backslash "\". I have: test <- c('foo','bar') and I need to rebuild the array, encapsulating the text items with latex stuff, like this: paste("\parbox[b]{3cm}{", test, "}", fill=TRUE) Actually, cat() prints the string fine if one uses

Is it just my installation or does edit() (or fix(), etc.) in R-4.0.0 double all the backslashes when options(keep.source=TRUE)? E.g., > options(keep.source=TRUE) > f <- function(x) { cat("\t", x, "\n", sep="") } > edit(f) # exit the editor without making any changes The editor (vi or notepad) shows doubled backslashes function(x) {