Reanding a windows file

"Alexandra R. M. de Almeida" <alexandrarma at yahoo.com.br> writes:

Dear R users
 
 Some one knows how to read a windows file with the adress like 

"D:\CSV\Work\test.csv" without change the "\" by "/" by myself?!

 There is some function or parameter that read like the adress windows form.
 I tried to search somethig to substitute the "\" by "/", but I don't find...

Well, there's no problem with the backslashed form except if you try
copying it literally into R source code. If you do, you run into
problems with R interpreting the backslash as an escape character,
which itself needs to be escaped ("doubling the backslashes"). You
might for instance proceed as follows:

x <- readLines(,1) # input data on next line

D:\CSV\Work\test.csv

x

[1] "D:\\CSV\\Work\\test.csv"

mydata <- read.csv(x)

Notice that x as such has only single backslashes, it is just the
print routine that inserts escape characters:

cat(x,"\n")

D:\CSV\Work\test.csv

nchar(x)

[1] 20

123456789*123456789*

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