Sub and gsub treat \\ replacement pattern incorrectly
I expect
sub("a","\\", "a", perl=T)
to produce
[1] "\"
instead it generates
[1] ""
On the other hand, if I run
sub("a","\\\\", "a", perl=T)
it correctly outputs
[1] "\\"
The same issue applies to gsub.
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Version:
platform = i386-pc-mingw32
arch = i386
os = mingw32
system = i386, mingw32
status =
major = 2
minor = 8.1
year = 2008
month = 12
day = 22
svn rev = 47281
language = R
version.string = R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 2
Locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
Search Path:
.GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils,
package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
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Sincerely,
Andriy
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