See also:
file.path(..., fsep = .Platform$file.sep)
https://web.mit.edu/~r/current/lib/R/library/base/html/file.path.html
I'm not sure, but help(".Platform") seems to support what I get from
Richard O'Keefe, that "you can safely use / in file name" perhaps no
matter which platform. At one point that was not true, but it may be the
case now. Sorry: I cannot easily check. Spencer Graves
On 5/7/26 21:30, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
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
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