Hi Dan,
I am using linux. So, not sure whether this will work or you tried it before.
After you paste the path at (1:), then press enter two times. One more point.
In your path, there were spaces within slashes. So, if you do the scan, it
will return as 5 items, which you have to join again. I removed the spaces and
tried this.
But you can try.
str=scan(what="character",allowEscapes=F)
1: G:\CompensationAudits_Reports\StepAudit\StepsoffStep.accdb
2:
Read 1 item
> str
[1] "G:\\CompensationAudits_Reports\\StepAudit\\StepsoffStep.accdb"
> gsub('\\\\', '/',str)
[1] "G:/CompensationAudits_Reports/StepAudit/StepsoffStep.accdb"
A.K.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lopez, Dan" <[email protected]>
To: arun <[email protected]>
Cc: R help <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 12:03 PM
Subject: RE: [R] Using Sub
Hi A.K.,
That works but when I copy and paste from Window explorer it will have a single
backslashes and not double. It works with double as what you have in your
example below but not with single as what I would end up passing.
Do you have any other suggestions or methods to accomplish this?
Thanks.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: arun [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 8:59 AM
To: Lopez, Dan
Cc: R help
Subject: Re: [R] Using Sub
Hi,
I guess you need something like this:
> str1<-"G:\\Compensation Audits_Reports\\Step Audit\\Steps off Step.accdb"
> gsub('\\\\','/',str1)
[1] "G:/Compensation Audits_Reports/Step Audit/Steps off Step.accdb"
A.K.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lopez, Dan" <[email protected]>
To: Duncan Murdoch <[email protected]>
Cc: R help <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [R] Using Sub
Hi Duncan,
That's right but I want to be able to use this to replace back slashes with
front slashes when I copy and paste file paths. How can I make this work so I
don't get this error?
Thanks.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 12:04 AM
To: Lopez, Dan
Cc: R help
Subject: Re: [R] Using Sub
On 12-06-14 6:23 PM, Lopez, Dan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to get the sub function to work but can't for the life of
> me figure it out. I tried looking at ?sub but I think there is something that
> I am just not understanding.
>
> Example failed attempts
>> sub("\\","/","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off
>> Step.accdb")
> Error: '\C' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "G:\C"
This isn't anything to do with sub(), it's the third string that's the
problem. When you say "G:\Comp..." it thinks you've escaped the C, but there's
no such escape.
Duncan Murdoch
>
>> sub("\\","/","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off
>> Step.accdb",fixed=TRUE)
> Error: '\C' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "G:\C"
>
>> sub("\\","/","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off
>> Step.accdb",fixed=FALSE)
> Error: '\C' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting
> "G:\C")
>
>> sub("/","\","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off
>> Step.accdb")
> Error: unexpected symbol in "sub("/","\","G"
>
> Thanks.
> Dan
>
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