Message-ID: <1309327549253-3632161.post@n4.nabble.com>
Date: 2011-06-29T06:05:49Z
From: Berend Hasselman
Subject: Querying the path separator?
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimhuz1JcuK+T+XiJzFZ6mkf4fHu1A@mail.gmail.com>
Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
>
> The problem is that I'm trying to create a path to use with a system()
> call, and the command window will not work with the forward slash,
> only with the standard backslash. I do understand that within R it
> will work with either way, but not via the system call. I'm trying to
> create a "generic" system() call that will work with an external
> executable that is available on both windows and unix machines.
>
Would .Platform$file.sep help you?
I can't test this.
Berend
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