This isn't an R thing. The Windows system calls that accept file names accept both kinds of slash indifferently. I've seen it said that this goes back to MS-DOS 2, but certainly it's all NT versions. If you need to link C and/or Fortran with R, you can safely use / in file name strings in those languages too.
On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 01:18, Chris Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > It had been about a year since I had worked in Windows, and apparently I > had gotten rusty. Forward slashes in path names, as in > > read.csv("e:/path/to/datafileOnWindows.csv") > > work just fine in R on Windows. > > Sorry for the bother. > > --Chris Ryan > > > > Chris Ryan wrote: > > I'm trying to generalize one of my scripts so that it will run on my > > Linux Mint computer at home and my client's Windows 11 computer at work. > > I'm encountering trouble when setting file paths, conditional on which > > computer the script is running on. It's the Windows backslash issue > > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
