[R] Querying the path separator?

[Berend Hasselman]

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> 
> The problem is that I'm trying to create a path to use with a system()
> call, and the command window will not work with the forward slash,
> only with the standard backslash.  I do understand that within R it
> will work with either way, but not via the system call.  I'm trying to
> create a "generic" system() call that will work with an external
> executable that is available on both windows and unix machines.
> 

Would .Platform$file.sep help you?
I can't test this.

Berend

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