[R] How to replace slashes with back slashes
Philippe Grosjean
phgrosjean at sciviews.org
Wed Jan 19 15:21:06 CET 2005
The second syntax is correct:
> gsub('/', '\\\\', 'c:/dir1/dir2/file.ext')
[1] "c:\\dir1\\dir2\\file.ext"
Indeed, R escapes backslashes. That is why they are doubled in R
strings. However, they appear as single backslashes in oyur text file:
> res <- gsub('/', '\\\\', 'c:/dir1/dir2/file.ext')
> cat(res, file = "test.txt")
> file.show("test.txt", delete.file = TRUE)
You got this in your file:
c:\dir1\dir2\file.ext
thus pretty readable by a Windows app.
Best,
Philippe Grosjean
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Joerg Klausen wrote:
> Dear R-helpers
>
> I am running R2.0.0 under Windows 2000. I am compiling a number of file paths into a simple text file that will be read by some other software we use. Unfortunately, it can only handle file paths with back slashes (MS Windows convention), and from R, I get file paths with forward slashes. The following didn't work.
>
>
>>gsub('/', '\\', 'c:/dir1/dir2/file.ext')
>
> [1] "c:dir1dir2file.ext"
>
>>gsub('/', '\\\\', 'c:/dir1/dir2/file.ext')
>
> [1] "c:\\dir1\\dir2\\file.ext"
>
> I have tried to find an answer on R-help, but didn't ;-(
>
> Thanks for helping me,
> Kind regards,
> Jörg
>
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