On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, yvonnick noel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've seen this question asked in the archives but no clear reply or solution
> provided.
I've seen the answer many times: what were you searching on?
> So, just to be sure it is not possible in R: Can I replace
> backslashes with slashes in a string ?
Yes. The Windows R code does it in several places.
> I am writing a GUI for R with the Rpad library. I have a "browse" button for
> data loading and Windows return a path string with backslashes. I need to
> convert them into slashes to use the string with read.table.
Actually, read.table accepts any valid file path, so I don't see why.
> I would have expected something like:
>
> gsub("\\","\/","c:\My Documents\data.dat")
> to work but it does not (incorrect regular expression).
You need one of
gsub("\\\\","/","c:\\My Documents\\data.dat")
gsub("\\","/","c:\\My Documents\\data.dat", fixed = TRUE)
chartr("\\", "/", "c:\\My Documents\\data.dat")
Note that you need to be careful in certain multi-byte locales to change
characters not bytes, but nowadays (post 2.1.0) R is careful.
> Note that I have no control on the string which is returned from the
> system (no such problem under Linux BTW).
Really? What happens with file names containing backslashes on Linux?
The string will have embedded backslashes, represented by \\ in quoted
strings in R ...
> Any idea ?
>
> Yvonnick NOEL
> U. of Rennes 2
> FRANCE
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