I know you have a solution, but I would have suggested using print() with quote=FALSE as a better way to illuminate what is going on, as in this example:
> foo <- 'bah"bah' > foo [1] "bah\"bah" > print(foo) [1] "bah\"bah" > print(foo, quote=FALSE) [1] bah"bah As others said, the backslash isn't really there. So you only have to get rid of the " which you can do with > gsub('"','',foo) [1] "bahbah" To summarize, in R, due to its rules for formatting printed output, what you see isn't always exactly what you have, and this is an example. -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 11/17/13 2:07 PM, "Erin Hodgess" <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: >Dear R People: > >I'm sure that this is a very simple problem, but I have been wresting with >it for some time. > >I have the following file that has the following one line: > > CRS("+init=epsg:28992") > >Fair enough. I scan it into R and get the following: > >> u >[1] "CRS(\"+init=epsg:28992\")" >> gsub(pattern='\"',replacement='"',x=u) >[1] "CRS(\"+init=epsg:28992\")" > >I need to get rid of the extra quotation marks and slashes. I've tried >all >sorts of things, including gsub, as you see, but no good. > >Thank you for any help. > >Sincerely, >Erin > > >-- >Erin Hodgess >Associate Professor >Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences >University of Houston - Downtown >mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.