In the example below, note that the R representation of the directory listing escapes the quotes in the original and encloses it all in a second set of quotes, e.g. "\"theta-1.csv\"".

This must come up a lot. Is there an idiomatic way to change "\"theta-1.csv\"" to "theta-1.csv" so that it could be assigned to x and the following statement would yield a valid path?

I'm aware the answer might be R code, but it is to tightly tied to org-babel I figure it makes sense to ask the question here.

All the best,

Tom

--------------- Example -------------------

*** Dated events

#+srcname: thetas()

#+begin_src shell

cd r && ls theta*

#+end_src

#+results: thetas

| "theta-1.csv" |

| "theta-2.csv" |

...

#+srcname: test-list(x = thetas)

#+begin_src R :session

str(x)

#+end_src

#+results: test-list

| "theta-1.csv" |

| "theta-2.csv" |

...

tdye> str(x)

'data.frame': 8 obs. of 1 variable:

$ V1: chr "\"theta-1.csv\"" "\"theta-2.csv\"" "\"theta-3.csv\"" "\"theta-4.csv\"" ...

Thomas S. Dye, Ph.D.

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