Sorry for the noise! I wasn't supposed to send my previous message. On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:44:28 +0200 Michał Bojanowski <michal2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AVAR=${APPDATA}/foo/bar > > Which is a documented way of referring to existing environment > variables. Now, with that in R I'm getting: > > Sys.getenv("APPDATA") # That works OK > [1] "C:\\Users\\mbojanowski\\AppData\\Roaming" > > so OK, but: > > Sys.getenv("AVAR") > [1] "C:UsersmbojanowskiAppDataRoaming/foo/bar" Hmm, a function called by readRenviron does seem to remove backslashes, but not if they are encountered inside quotes: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/blob/3f8b75857fb1397f9f3ceab6c75554e1a5386adc/src/main/Renviron.c#L149 Would AVAR="${APPDATA}"/foo/bar work? -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel