Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't '\\' be converted into '\' in my string? In my output (below), you can see that '\\' remains '\\'.
> term = "mother\'s day" > term [1] "mother's day" > term = "mother\\\'s day" > term [1] "mother\\'s day" <--- should be "mother\'s day" Thanks, Frank ______________________________________________ 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.