Re: [R] Regular expression substitution ...

Sander Timmer wrote: It's a bit strange: > sub("/pc", '\\%', x) [1] "%" > > sub("/pc", '%', x) [1] "\\%" Also with fixed I'm not able to get a single \ as return value. Well, you get the printed representation (i.e. the quoted backslash - quoted with anotern backslash). Use cat(su

Re: [R] Regular expression substitution ...

It's a bit strange: > sub("/pc", '\\%', x) [1] "%" > > sub("/pc", '%', x) [1] "\\%" Also with fixed I'm not able to get a single \ as return value. Sander On 2 nov 2009, at 12:36, Roberto Brunelli wrote: I would like to replace all occurences of /pc with \% using something like

[R] Regular expression substitution ...

I would like to replace all occurences of /pc with \% using something like sub("/pc", "\%", x) but I am unable to make the '\' pass through. Any hint? Thanks, Roberto __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listi