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

[David Duffy]

I couldn't resist adding a more literal answer

unback <- function(x) {
  chars <- unlist(strsplit(deparse(x),""))
  chars <- chars[-c(1,length(chars))]
  paste(gsub("\\\\","/",chars),collapse="")
}

unback("\n")


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