Re: [R] file path

2012-05-14 Thread Wincent
Thanks for the suggestion. The file name in my case is Chinese, which makes the regular expression less useful. Anyway, I would like to pose a followup question. I have a character string of ABC\D, and want to strip away the \ and want a returned character of ABCD. How can I do it with gsub() ?

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-14 Thread Wincent
-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Wincent Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:15 AM To: Tal Galili Cc: r help Subject: Re: [R] file path Hmm, I don't think it gives what I want. For example, I assign a file name to f, f - a?b.txt file.path(e:,f) [1] e

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-14 Thread Baoqiang
This works on Mac: str - abc/d gsub(/, , str) Return: abcd Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2012, at 4:28 AM, Wincent ronggui.hu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. The file name in my case is Chinese, which makes the regular expression less useful. Anyway, I would like to pose

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-14 Thread Wincent
Emm, my bad. I meant str - abc\d. Any ideas? On 14 May 2012 18:02, Baoqiang bqcaom...@gmail.com wrote: This works on Mac: str - abc/d gsub(/, , str) Return: abcd Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2012, at 4:28 AM, Wincent ronggui.hu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. The

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-14 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 14-05-2012, at 12:07, Wincent wrote: Emm, my bad. I meant str - abc\d. Any ideas? gsub(, , str) Berend __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-14 Thread David Winsemius
On May 14, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Berend Hasselman wrote: On 14-05-2012, at 12:07, Wincent wrote: Emm, my bad. I meant str - abc\d. Any ideas? gsub(, , str) #1: One cannot execute: str - abc\d , at least on my machine, since that throws an error because \d is an unrecognized escape.

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-10 Thread Upton, Stephen (Steve) (CIV)
Of Wincent Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:15 AM To: Tal Galili Cc: r help Subject: Re: [R] file path Hmm, I don't think it gives what I want. For example, I assign a file name to f, f - a?b.txt file.path(e:,f) [1] e:/a?b.txt The resultant character is not accepted as a file name by Windows OS

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-10 Thread Wincent
to write to a specific location, as in your example. steve -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Wincent Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:15 AM To: Tal Galili Cc: r help Subject: Re: [R] file path Hmm, I don't think

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-10 Thread jim holtman
: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:15 AM To: Tal Galili Cc: r help Subject: Re: [R] file path Hmm, I don't think it gives what I want. For example, I assign a file name to f, f - a?b.txt file.path(e:,f) [1] e:/a?b.txt The resultant character is not accepted as a file name by Windows OS. On 9

[R] file path

2012-05-09 Thread Wincent
Dear all, is there any function to assert whether a file path is legitimate, and to convert any potential file path to a legitimate file path? I automate a batch of files and write them to plain text files with cat(). The file argument of cat() is generated automatically which may contain

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-09 Thread Tal Galili
Hi Wincent, Have a look at: ?file.path Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English)

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 09/05/2012 4:03 AM, Wincent wrote: Dear all, is there any function to assert whether a file path is legitimate, and to convert any potential file path to a legitimate file path? I automate a batch of files and write them to plain text files with cat(). The file argument of cat() is generated

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-09 Thread Wincent
Hmm, I don't think it gives what I want. For example, I assign a file name to f, f - a?b.txt file.path(e:,f) [1] e:/a?b.txt The resultant character is not accepted as a file name by Windows OS. On 9 May 2012 20:32, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wincent, Have a look at:

Re: [R] file path

2012-05-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 09.05.2012 17:14, Wincent wrote: Hmm, I don't think it gives what I want. For example, I assign a file name to f, f- a?b.txt file.path(e:,f) [1] e:/a?b.txt The resultant character is not accepted as a file name by Windows OS. Not on Linux if you write to a smb file system, and that