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David
David

Reputation: 465

Is there a way for Windows to return the path to a directory as Linux does?

In Windows a path to a directory is something like: C:\Users\Name

In Linux it should be something like: /home/name

In the R programming language backslashes are an escape character, therefore a path (even on a Windows system) must be written either as C:/Users/Name or C:\\Users\\Name. When the path is too long it is rather tiring to retype every slash.

Is there anyway in which Windows returns the path with double backslashes or one slash? If not, is there a simple way in R to change the path so that R can understand it?

Thank you very much.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2102

Answers (3)

jeborsel
jeborsel

Reputation: 697

to navigate through directories in R, you can also use the foldernames to get into a windows folder and .. to go back to the parent folder e.g.

    setwd("new")
    setwd("..")

Upvotes: 0

jdharrison
jdharrison

Reputation: 30435

If you are running interactively you can copy the windows path to the clipboard then use:

normalizePath(readClipboard(), "/")

This will return a unix style path.

Example C:\Users\john\Dropbox. Highlight right click and copy in windows. Then run:

> normalizePath(readClipboard(), "/", mustWork = FALSE)
[1] "C:/Users/john/Dropbox"

Upvotes: 2

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 521944

Try this:

gsub("/", "//", getwd())

Output:

[1] "C://Users//tbiegeleisen//Documents"

Upvotes: 2

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