Urgent Help in Paste Command

But when I do this I need x value to be " C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe" and not C:\\Program
Files\\R\\R-2.4.0\\bin\\Rgui.exe"

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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Gabor
Grothendieck
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 5:21 PM
To: Shubha Karanth
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Fwd: Urgent Help in Paste Command

Try this:

x <- readline()

C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe

x

[1] "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-2.4.0\\bin\\Rgui.exe"



You can also use

  readLines("clipboard")

if you are trying to read in something from the clipboard.


On 12/2/06, Shubha Karanth <shubhakaranth at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Experts,

I want to see my object as below:
    'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe'
So I use the paste command. None of the below is working. Could anyone

help

me on this?

paste("'C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe'")

[1] "'C:Program FilesRR-2.4.0\binRgui.exe'"

paste("'C:","\","Program

Files","\","R","\","R-2.4.0","\","bin","\","

Rgui.exe'",sep="")
Error: syntax error in "paste("'C:","\","Program"

paste("'C:","Program Files","R","R-2.4.0","bin","Rgui.exe'",sep="\")

+

I need to only use the \ symbol and not / or \\. Please help me...

Thank you,
Shubha.

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