R-beta: R-beta Win95 read.table

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Peter B. Mandeville" <mandevip at deimos.tc.uaslp.mx> writes:

> 
> For 
> 	dat <- read.table("c:\claims.dat",header=T)
> R version 0.62 Beta (june 9, 1998)for Windows 95 reports
> 	Error: "scan" can't open file
> but
> 	dat <- read.table("c:\\claims.dat",header=T)
> works.
> 

Yes. This is a consequence of R's (C-style) string handling in
general. '\' is an escape character, so that you e.g. can enter a
newline as "\n". When you really need a '\', you have to escape it
with another '\'. In filenames, you can also rotate it 90 degrees
("c:/claims.dat")

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