... and you can see that the "\\" is correct by cat(rankFile) instead of print(rankFile), which is what entering the variable at the prompt actually does.
-- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Uwe Ligges > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:04 AM > To: roger bos > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] using paste and "\" to create a valid filename > > roger bos wrote: > > > Sometimes even the easy stuff is difficult (for me)... I want to get > > input from different places to paste together an excel filename (so > > you know I'm using windows) that I can open with RODBC. I > know about > > using double "\" since its an escape character, but I get > either 2 or > > none, I can't get just one "\" where I need it. See example code > > below. I am using R 2.1.0, but plan to upgrade soon. Thanks in > > advance to anyone who can help. > > > > Roger > > > > > > rankPath <- "R:\New Ranks\SMC\SMC" > > rankDate <- "20050819" > > rankFile <- paste(rankPath,rankDate,".xls", sep="") > > rankFile > > [1] "R:New RanksSMCSMC20050819.xls" > > > > > > rankPath <- "R:\\New Ranks\\SMC\\SMC" > > rankDate <- "20050819" > > rankFile <- paste(rankPath,rankDate,".xls", sep="") > > rankFile > > [1] "R:\\New Ranks\\SMC\\SMC20050819.xls" > > > This is perfect, "\" is *printed* escaped, hence for file > access you can > perfectly use this character vector. > > Uwe Ligges > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
