Or even easier, x <- scan("clipboard", what = "")
at least on Windows. On 7/28/06, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enter this at the console > > x <- scan(what = "") > > and after pressing the enter after the right paren, > do a paste and then press enter twice. > > > On 7/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am new to R, so please forgive me if there is an obvious answer to > > this question. I have done fairly extensive searching through R docs, > > google and a few R users and have not found an answer to my question. > > > > Is there a way to create a non-interpreted string object in R? > > > > For example, I am using R in a MS Windows environment and I would like > > to paste DOS paths into some R command: > > setwd("c:\some\directory") > > > > Obviously this does not work because of the escaping mechanism. And I > > know the obvious answer, use "\\". But if you do a lot of pasting into > > R it could get tedious manually editing escape sequences. > > > > I did find a workable solution to this particular problem: > > setwd(choose.dir())<Enter><Paste><Enter> > > This saves me from having to do the editing myself. I can conceive of > > other examples of wanting to paste other more abstract stings into R > > that may happen to have a \ in it. And now, thanks to choose.dir(), I > > have a way to do the translation automagically but... > > > > My question is, is there any way in R to not interpret the string and > > store the string as is? For instance, Perl allows you to do interpreted > > (" ") and non-interpreted strings (' '). This does not work in R; ' ' > > acts just like " " and my testing indicates that the interpretation is > > done at parse time. Is there any language level construct for creating > > a non-interpreted string in R? > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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 > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.