Ah, you are right, it is in one of my Rd file, not in my actual code.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, and thanks for the solution.

-David

2010/5/22 Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

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> On 22.05.2010 08:18, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
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>> R version/sessionInfo()?
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>> /H
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>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:08 PM, David Reiss<dreiss@systemsbiology.org>
>>  wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>> I am trying to check a package via R CMD CHECK and it is failing with
>>>
>>> Error: '\s' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "\s"
>>>
>>> The culprit looks something like this:
>>>
>>> gsub('\\s\\(.*\\)',"","this is a (test, man) dude")
>>>
>>
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> I guess this is in the Examples of an Rd document, right? If so, you need
> to double escape, i.e.:
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>  gsub('\\\\s\\\\(.*\\\\)',"","this is a (test, man) dude")
>
> Uwe Ligges
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>  which is correctly escaped with the "\\"'s   -- but it seems that R CMD
>>> CHECK is pre-escaping the string when it reads in the code to check it.
>>>
>>> How do I get R CMD CHECK to let the "\\s" 's through?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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