Hi Ista, Is there no way to not escape the backslash in the pathway? The pathway is going to change and will become very long and I need to do this programmatically. Beside, escaping the backslash defeats the purpose of using gsub. If I could do this manually each and every time, I would change simply change the backslash to a forward slash and therefore not need gsub at all...
Thanks, Dan On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Escape the backslash with another backslash, i.e., > > gsub("\\","/","X:\\Classes\\TT\\Automation", fixed = TRUE) > > best, > Ista > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Dan Abner <dan.abne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I realize that the backslash is an escape character in R, therefore, I >> am trying to replace it with a forward slash. Can someone please >> suggest how to get this code to work? >> >>> lib<-gsub("\","/","X:\Classes\TT\Automation") >> Error: unexpected symbol in "lib<-gsub("\","/","X" >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dan >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.