[R] replace double backslash with singel backslash

[Kay Cecil Cichini]

Thanks,
that helped!

Yours,
Kay

Zitat von Gene Leynes <gleynes+r at gmail.com>:

> I think that people are afraid to say "You can't do that in R"...
> But I think the real answer is: you can't do that in R.
>
> Although, it is helpful to understand Jeff's reply.  I hadn't fully
> realized why this particular problem occurs before reading that.  It's odd
> to me that // and / are both stored as /, but that makes sense given my
> experience in R.
>
> Also, the other replies are good advice, working with R's path functions or
> sticking with forward slashes is the way to go (don't fight the
> assimilation, the borg needs you).
>
> Personally, I think some of these seemingly small problems actually
> encumber R's mainstream adoption quite a bit, but then I'm not the one
> writing R.  Plus, it's is still pretty dang awesome even with its minor
> annoyances.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Jeff Newmiller  
> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote:
>
>> Your str does not have any double backslashes to replace. You need to
>> revisit the concept of escape characters in the documentation. In brief,
>> every "\\" in a quoted string is actually a single character as stored in
>> memory.
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>> Kay Cichini <Kay.Cichini at uibk.ac.at> wrote:
>>
>> I want to replace \\ with \ in:
>> str <-
>> "C:\\DOKUME~1\\u0327336\\LOKALE~1\\Temp\\RtmpQ5NJ8X\\TIRIS_PICS\\1_Img.jpg"
>>
>> and tried:
>> gsub("\\\\", "\\", str)
>>
>> but this removes the \\ without replacing them by \
>>
>> Any help much appreciated,
>> Kay
>>
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