How to escape a backslash in R?

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Paul Fournel picture Paul Fournel · Feb 14, 2013 · Viewed 32.6k times · Source

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?

Answer

Paul Fournel picture Paul Fournel · Feb 14, 2013

I found a solution that works

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

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