title: Efficiently convert backslash to forward slash in R
body: <p>I am looking for an efficient way to convert back slash to forward slash in R. Sometime I copy the link of the directory in Windows and I get something like this:</p>
  <p><code>C:\Users\jd\Documents\folder\file.txt</code></p>
  <p>How can I quickly change this to <code>C:/Users/jd/Documents/folder/file.txt</code> ? I cannot even read the above expression as character. It throws an error</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>&quot;\u used without hex digits in character string starting &quot;&quot;C:\u&quot;.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I know TAB function in R helps to find the location fast, but was just wondering if there was any other work around. I could change the working directory to the location of folder also. I was just playing around and tried to convert backslash to forward slash and was not straight forward so asked this just because of curiosity.</p>