Dear all, I have a string (a file path in windows system) contains several "\"s. When I copy and paste it into R for assignment to an variable, the "\"s are always interpreted as escaping characters. How can I keep it intact? Thanks. Regards, Leon
How to disable character escaping ?
3 messages · Leon Yee, Brian Ripley
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Leon Yee wrote:
Dear all, I have a string (a file path in windows system) contains several "\"s. When I copy and paste it into R for assignment to an variable, the "\"s are always interpreted as escaping characters. How can I keep it intact?
By reading from a file or connection, as in
foo <- scan("", "", n=1)
c:\tmp\foo
The parser always interprets \ in strings, so you must avoid the parser.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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