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Selecting a file with gWidgets

Submitted by Stéphane Laurent on July 23, 2012

Below is an artificial example of a R widget created with the gWidgets package:

library(gWidgets)
options("guiToolkit"="RGtk2")
 
f <- function(file){
    dat <- read.table(file, header=TRUE)
return(dat[1,])
}
 
lst <- list() 
    lst$action <- list(beginning="f(",ending=")")
    lst$arguments$file <- list(type="gfilebrowse")
 
ggenericwidget(lst, container=gwindow("Example"))

Using Windows there is a problem when browsing and selecting the file: the backslashes are not doubled in the file path. How to overcome this problem ? I don'y know how to replace the backslashes with double backslashes in a character string.