[R] How to convert backslash to slash?

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 22:08:18 CEST 2008


Except it's a bit tricker because:

s <- "C:\foo\bar"
print(s)

You'd need to work with

encodeString( "C:\foo\bar")

but that won't work in general:

"c:\xjobs"
"c:\"
"c:\help"

Hadley

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Shengqiao Li <shli at stat.wvu.edu> wrote:
>
> How to use sub, gsub, etc. to replace "\" in a string to "/"?
>
> For example,convert "C:\foo\bar" to "C:/foo/bar".
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shengqiao Li
>
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