[R] Fwd: Urgent Help in Paste Command

[Gabor Grothendieck]

x is the value you asked for.  I think you are confusing its printed
representation
with its value.  Try cat(x) and strsplit(x, "")

On 12/2/06, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <shubhak at ambaresearch.com> wrote:
> But when I do this I need x value to be " C:\Program
> Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe" and not C:\\Program
> Files\\R\\R-2.4.0\\bin\\Rgui.exe"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Gabor
> Grothendieck
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:21 PM
> To: Shubha Karanth
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Fwd: Urgent Help in Paste Command
>
> Try this:
>
> > x <- readline()
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe
> > x
> [1] "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.4.0\\bin\\Rgui.exe"
>
>
>
> You can also use
>
>   readLines("clipboard")
>
> if you are trying to read in something from the clipboard.
>
>
> On 12/2/06, Shubha Karanth <shubhakaranth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Experts,
> >
> > I want to see my object as below:
> >     'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe'
> > So I use the paste command. None of the below is working. Could anyone
> help
> > me on this?
> >
> > > paste("'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe'")
> > [1] "'C:Program FilesRR-2.4.0\binRgui.exe'"
> >
> > > paste("'C:","\","Program
> Files","\","R","\","R-2.4.0","\","bin","\","
> > Rgui.exe'",sep="")
> > Error: syntax error in "paste("'C:","\","Program"
> >
> > >paste("'C:","Program Files","R","R-2.4.0","bin","Rgui.exe'",sep="\")
> > +
> >
> > I need to only use the \ symbol and not / or \\. Please help me...
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Shubha.
> >
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