Hi, unfortunately I'm not able to check how it behaves at the moment.
Even if it works ok, it is impossible to drop eval and parse in my situation. I’m using RExcel and RInterface.RRun to execute code from the string: "g_1 <- sqlQuery(cnn_1, "select aa from bb.[cc\\dd].ee")". RExcel adds eval and parse and finally R gets the transformed code: eval(parse(text="g_1 <- sqlQuery(cnn_1, \"select aa from bb.[cc\\dd].ee\")")). Regards ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.