This is hopefully a simple question. I am trying to escape single quotes like so:
abc's >> abc\'s However, I cannot find an easy way to do that with gsub: gsub("'","\\\\'","abc's") # returns "abc\\'s" How can I get a single \ in the output? Thanks, Sean ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.