error loading source file

[Andrew.Swan at csiro.au]

Bill - Your solution(s) seems reasonable - but the question for me is how to
get C-c C-l to do that in ESS - having no knowledge of how to modify the
lisp code myself. 

Regards

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Dunlap [mailto:bill at insightful.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2001 4:57 AM
> To: Andrew.Swan at csiro.au
> Subject: Re: error loading source file
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 Andrew.Swan at csiro.au wrote:
> 
> > Hi - with ess-5.1.19, xemacs 21.1.9, and R1.3.1 on win2000, 
> I am getting an
> > error when trying to load a source file:
> >
> > Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open file `d:	
> mpswa088.line.plot.R'
> >
> > The file is supposed to be `d:\tmp\swa088.line.plot.R', so 
> it seems that the
> > "\t" is being substituted by a tab, and the second "\" 
> doesn't appear at
> > all.
> >
> > Can this be fixed easily?
> 
> Use a double backslash to mean one backslash.  Otherwise \t means tab,
> \n means newline, \b means baskspace, etc.  These are the C language
> conventions.
> 
> Another solution is to use / instead of \ in paths.  They are 
> generally
> equivalent on Windows (they are equivalent in C code but the DOS shell
> uses / for other things).
> 
> In Splus6 we added a warning in the parser to sometimes alert 
> you to potential
> problems:
> 
>    > file<-"d:\tmp\swa088.line.plot.R"
>    Warning messages:
>      The initial backslash is ignored in \s -- not a 
> recognized escape sequence.
>            Use \\ to make a backslash
> 
> Note that is won't complain about "\t" because that is a 
> recognized escape
> sequence, but it catches the \s.
> 
> 
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