Use either
> gsub(" ", " ", "one two three") # double space after 'two'
[1] "one\\ two\\ \\ three"
or
> gsub(" ", "\\ ", "one two three", fixed=TRUE)
[1] "one\\ two\\ \\ three"
When 'fixed' is not TRUE then a backslash gives a special meaning to
the next character in the replacement
On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Nathan Skene wrote:
> I have a path:
>
> path = "/nfs/users/nfs_n/ns9/
> Phenotype Analysis/Results/Run_AmplRatio_neg
> BinaryAll trained without akapn+tnik.csv"
>
> I wish to replace the spaces with "\ " so that it can be read by a system
> call to unix.
>
> Using
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