Message-ID: <4305F4F4.5090008@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-08-19T15:04:20Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: using paste and "\" to create a valid filename
In-Reply-To: <1db7268005081907462efc78bb@mail.gmail.com>
roger bos wrote:
> Sometimes even the easy stuff is difficult (for me)... I want to get
> input from different places to paste together an excel filename (so
> you know I'm using windows) that I can open with RODBC. I know about
> using double "\" since its an escape character, but I get either 2 or
> none, I can't get just one "\" where I need it. See example code
> below. I am using R 2.1.0, but plan to upgrade soon. Thanks in
> advance to anyone who can help.
>
> Roger
>
>
> rankPath <- "R:\New Ranks\SMC\SMC"
> rankDate <- "20050819"
> rankFile <- paste(rankPath,rankDate,".xls", sep="")
> rankFile
> [1] "R:New RanksSMCSMC20050819.xls"
>
>
> rankPath <- "R:\\New Ranks\\SMC\\SMC"
> rankDate <- "20050819"
> rankFile <- paste(rankPath,rankDate,".xls", sep="")
> rankFile
> [1] "R:\\New Ranks\\SMC\\SMC20050819.xls"
This is perfect, "\" is *printed* escaped, hence for file access you can
perfectly use this character vector.
Uwe Ligges
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