Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Thanks all, I'll try some of these suggestions out but it seems like a raw string ability could come in helpful -- there aren't any packages out there that have this capability? --j On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Jeff Newmiller jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us wrote: What is wrong with winpath -

[R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
R-helpers: One of the minor irritations I have is copying paths from Windows explorer, which look like: C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.3 and using them in a setwd() statement, since the \ is, of course, interpreted as an escape character. I have to, at present, manually add in the double slashes or

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan Greenberg j...@illinois.eduwrote: C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.3 Does R on windows have clipboard support? I can do this on Linux: readLines(file(clipboard)) [1] C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-3.0.3 - that's from a copy of a path with only single slashes in.

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
. Weird. Br. Frede Sendt fra Samsung mobil Oprindelig meddelelse Fra: Barry Rowlingson Dato:08/04/2014 17.20 (GMT+01:00) Til: Jonathan Greenberg Cc: r-help Emne: Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string... On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan Greenberg j

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, There is support for the clipboard on Windows 7. Also, note that on Windows your solution leaves a connection open so maybe the following is better. # copy the next line C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.3 clipb - file(clipboard) winpath - readLines(clipb) close(clipb) And, just to avoid

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen fr...@vestas.comwrote: I'm a bit surprised about the \\ on a linux OS. I'm also surprised that in a file manager on Windows you can paste e.g. C:/users/frtog/Desktop and it can find its way to the folder. Weird. Well, the clipboard

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
. april 2014 17:40 To: Frede Aakmann Tøgersen Cc: Jonathan Greenberg; r-help Subject: Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string... On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen fr...@vestas.commailto:fr...@vestas.com wrote: I'm a bit surprised about the \\ on a linux OS. I'm also

Re: [R] Ignore escape characters in a string...

2014-04-08 Thread Jeff Newmiller
What is wrong with winpath - readLines(clipboard ) ? If you want to show that as a literal in your code, then don't bother assigning it to a variable, but let it echo to output and copy THAT and put it in your source code. There is also file.choose()...