Relief from backslash irritation in R for Windows

Question

Early in my R life I discovered the pain of R and windows being on different pages when it came to the separator between directories and subdirectories. Eventhough I know about

Answer 1

This is AutoIt code which does the same thing (replaces \ with /).

Local $text1 = ClipGet()
$text2=StringReplace($text1,"\","/")
ClipPut($text2)