On 20 May 2014, at 12:37 , Knut Krueger <r...@knut-krueger.de> wrote:
> > Is there any function to change the windows path to linux path? > > especially I would like to have the possibility to use > f.e > path="C:\foo1\foo2\" > I can import those paths with > path = readline() but not directly in a script > In R string specifications, \ is an escape character. \n is newline, \b rings the bell, \" is a double quote, etc. So "C:\foo1\foo2\" is unterminated and containes 2 form feed characters. There's no way around using \\ to specify a backslash in a string literal. For file paths, you can also use the forward slash instead of the backslash. > Regards Knut > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.