[R] changing single to double backslash

2006-05-17 Thread Cézar Freitas 
Hi, all. I didn't find something like this in the faq
list:

I wound like build a function to substitute single
backslashes in a string to double:
ChangeSlash-function(dir) ...

so

ChangeSlash(C:\mydocs\test)

returns

C:\\mydocs\\test

Thanks,
C.





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Re: [R] changing single to double backslash

2006-05-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley 

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Cézar Freitas wrote:


Hi, all. I didn't find something like this in the faq
list:


Well, the FAQ and the rw-FAQ suggest that you need to use doubled 
backslashes when entering the string.



I wound like build a function to substitute single
backslashes in a string to double:
ChangeSlash-function(dir) ...

so

ChangeSlash(C:\mydocs\test)

returns

C:\\mydocs\\test


This is not possible: C:\mydocs\test is parsed with \t indicating a tab
and \m indicating m.

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