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________________________________ From: jim holtman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:58 PM To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth Subject: Re: [R] Fwd: Urgent Help in Paste Command It is fine since '\' is used to escape characters (like ' and "), it prints as '\\' escaping itself. > x <- '\\' # need to escape 'escape' > x [1] "\\" > cat(x) \> For use in path names, use '/'; usable on Windows and other systems: fileName <- 'C:/Program Files/R/R-2.4.0/bin/Rgui.exe' On 12/2/06, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But when I do this I need x value to be " C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe" and not C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.4.0\\bin\\Rgui.exe" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:21 PM To: Shubha Karanth Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] Fwd: Urgent Help in Paste Command Try this: > x <- readline() C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe > x [1] "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.4.0\\bin\\Rgui.exe" You can also use readLines("clipboard") if you are trying to read in something from the clipboard. On 12/2/06, Shubha Karanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Hi Experts, > > I want to see my object as below: > 'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe' > So I use the paste command. None of the below is working. Could anyone help > me on this? > > > paste("'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe'") > [1] "'C:Program FilesRR-2.4.0\binRgui.exe'" > > > paste("'C:","\","Program Files","\","R","\","R-2.4.0","\","bin","\"," > Rgui.exe'",sep="") > Error: syntax error in "paste("'C:","\","Program" > > >paste("'C:","Program Files","R","R-2.4.0","bin","Rgui.exe'",sep="\") > + > > I need to only use the \ symbol and not / or \\. Please help me... > > Thank you, > Shubha. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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. -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
