From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Date: Sun 22 Dec 2002 - 22:42:06 EST
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0212221136380.31488-100000@gannet.stats>
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
My answer is correct, and it does gives you
c:\work\part1.txt
However, print() (which you have called by auto-printing) escapes the
escape characters. cat() does not, so you get
> x <- paste("c:", "work", "part1.txt", sep="\\")
> x
[1] "c:\\work\\part1.txt"
> cat(x, "\n")
c:\work\part1.txt
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, John Miyamoto wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > Why guess? It's in the R Language definition and in all good books on
> > S/R.
> >
> > `String constants are delimited by a pair of single (') or double (")
> > quotes and can contain all other printable characters. Quotes and other
> > special characters within strings are specified using escape sequences:'
> >
> > paste("c:", "work", "part1.txt", sep="\\")
>
> Reply: The problem with this command is that it produces
>
> paste("c:", "work", "part1.txt", sep="\\")
> [1] "c:\\work\\part1.txt"
>
> whereas I want "c:\work\part1.txt". Some people have suggested to try
> 'file.path', but it either doesn't work, or I don't know how to make it
> work.
>
> > file.path("c:","work","part1.txt", fsep = "\")
> Error: syntax error
> > file.path("c:","work","part1.txt", fsep = "\\")
> [1] "c:\\work\\part1.txt"
>
> John Miyamoto
>
>
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