Escaping backslash (\) in string or paths in R

Question

Windows copies path with backslash \\, which R does not accept. So, I wanted to write a function which would convert \\ to /. For exam

Answer 1

chartr0 <- function(foo) chartr('\\','/',foo)
chartr0('E:\\RStuff\\test.r')

You cannot write E:\Rxxxx, because R believes R is escaped.