[R] forward slash vs double backslash R and Tinn-R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/23/2009 11:10 AM, Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
> I installed the newest version of R and once again ran into problem
> with Tinn-R failing when trying to use the R explorer. I had this
> problem once before and solved it when I added the following
> 
> .trPaths = c(
> 'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/',
> 'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/search.txt',
> 'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/objects.txt',
> 'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/file.r',
> 'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/selection.r',
> 'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/block.r',
> 'C:/Documents and Settings/fbuchins/Application Data/Tinn-R/tmp/lines.r')
> 
> The posted configuration file tries to accomplish this situation with
> .trPaths <- paste(paste(Sys.getenv('APPDATA'), '\\Tinn-R\\tmp\\',
> sep=''), c('', 'search.txt', 'objects.txt', 'file.r', 'selection.r',
> 'block.r', 'lines.r'), sep='')
> 
> BUT IT FAILS.

I think you want to be sending this to the Tinn-R maintainers, possibly 
with a patch to give something that works.  Reporting it on R-help may 
be useful for someone else hit with the same problem who looks it up 
here, but it won't be likely to get it fixed.

Duncan Murdoch