How to escape a backslash in R? [duplicate]

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14879204

  •  09-03-2022
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Question

I'm working in R and having troubles escaping the backslash. I am using the library stringr. 

install.packages("stringr", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
library("stringr")

I would like to do str = str_replace_all(str, "\", "")

So I tried str = str_replace_all(str, "\\", "") but it won't work.

What should I do?

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Solution

I found a solution that works

str = gsub("([\\])","", str)

OTHER TIPS

Use Hmisc::escapeRegex and Hmisc::escapeBS which automatically escapes backslashes and other regex special characters.

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