normalize-windows-file-path-from-clipboard.R

# Normalize a Windows file path from the clipboard.
#
# Single backslash is an escape character in R.
# Sanitize `\` to either `\\` or `/` (preferred).
#
# Otherwise, you'll hit this error:
# Error: '\p' is an unrecognized escape in character
#
# Note that this only works in R running on Windows.
# Linux/macOS R doesn't have the `readClipboard()` function.
normalizePath(
    path = readClipboard(),
    winslash = "/",
    mustWork = TRUE
)