[R] How to convert "c:\a\b" to "c:/a/b"?

[Spencer Graves]

	  How can one convert back slashes to forward slashes, e.g, changing 
"c:\a\b" to "c:/a/b"?  I tried the following:

 > gsub("\\\\", "/", "c:\a\b")
[1] "c:\a\b"

	  Since this didn't work, I eliminated the replacement as a contributor 
as follows:

 > gsub("X", "/", "c:XaXb")
[1] "c:/a/b"

	  The following seems to illustrate the problem:

  strsplit("c:\a\b", "")
[[1]]
[1] "c"  ":"  "\a" "\b"

	  How can one automate this?

	  Thanks,
	  spencer graves
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