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On 14-05-2012, at 12:07, Wincent wrote:

Emm, my bad.
I meant str <- "abc\d".
Any ideas?

gsub("\\\\", "", str)

#1:  One cannot execute:  str <- "abc\d" , at least on my machine,  
since that throws an error because "\d" is an "unrecognized escape".

#2: If the string has a backslash as its fourth character then it  
would need to be created with:

str <- "abc\\d"

(Then Berend's gsub would succeed.)

#3: If the string contains an ASCII cntrl-d. then the needed gsub  
command would be:

str <- "abc\004"
gsub("\\\004", "new", str)
[1] "abcnew"

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT