Forgive my ignorance, but shouldn't '\\' be converted into '\' in my
string? In my output (below), you can see that '\\' remains '\\'.

> term = "mother\'s day"
> term
[1] "mother's day"
> term = "mother\\\'s day"
> term
[1] "mother\\'s day"    <--- should be "mother\'s day"


Thanks,
Frank

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