> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Robert Baer > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:40 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] strsplit() and Windows file paths > > There are two ways to express file paths with the Windows environment: > > a=file.choose() > > a > [1] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\rbaer\\Desktop\\_VNT_Test\\coordFocused 20k > F5 0ng Ki8751 t20.txt" > > and > > >b= paste(getwd(),"/",dir()[1],sep="") > >b > [1] "C:/Documents and Settings/rbaer/Desktop/_VNT_Test/coordFocused 20k F5 > 0ng Ki8751 t20.txt" > > I have 2 questions: > > 1. Is it possible to get file.choose() to use the forward slash rather than > the escaped > back slash. It would be nice > if it were consistent with dir() and getwd()
Sorry, don't know. > > 2. If one has a path string like the escaped backslash pattern shown in 1 > above, > how does one do a strsplit() on these escaped backslashs? > Use "\\\\" ? > s <- "C:\\Documents and Settings\\rbaer\\Desktop\\_VNT_Test\\coordFocused 20k > F5 0ng Ki8751 t20.txt" > strsplit(s,"\\\\") [[1]] [1] "C:" [2] "Documents and Settings" [3] "rbaer" [4] "Desktop" [5] "_VNT_Test" [6] "coordFocused 20k F5 0ng Ki8751 t20.txt" > Thanks, > Rob > > --------------------- Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.