roger bos wrote: > Sometimes even the easy stuff is difficult (for me)... I want to get > input from different places to paste together an excel filename (so > you know I'm using windows) that I can open with RODBC. I know about > using double "\" since its an escape character, but I get either 2 or > none, I can't get just one "\" where I need it. See example code > below. I am using R 2.1.0, but plan to upgrade soon. Thanks in > advance to anyone who can help. > > Roger > > > rankPath <- "R:\New Ranks\SMC\SMC" > rankDate <- "20050819" > rankFile <- paste(rankPath,rankDate,".xls", sep="") > rankFile > [1] "R:New RanksSMCSMC20050819.xls" > > > rankPath <- "R:\\New Ranks\\SMC\\SMC" > rankDate <- "20050819" > rankFile <- paste(rankPath,rankDate,".xls", sep="") > rankFile > [1] "R:\\New Ranks\\SMC\\SMC20050819.xls"
This is perfect, "\" is *printed* escaped, hence for file access you can perfectly use this character vector. Uwe Ligges > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
