[R] File path expansion

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Martin Maechler wrote:

>
>> path.expand("~")
> [1] "/home/maechler"

Yes, but beware that may not do what you want on Windows in R <= 2.5.0, 
since someone changed the definition of 'home' but not path.expand.

>
>>>>>> "RobMcG" == McGehee, Robert <Robert.McGehee at geodecapital.com>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 25 May 2007 11:44:27 -0400 writes:
>
>    RobMcG> R-Help,
>    RobMcG> I discovered a "mis-feature" is ghostscript, which is used by the bitmap
>    RobMcG> function. It seems that specifying file names in the form "~/abc.png"
>    RobMcG> rather than "/home/directory/abc.png" causes my GS to crash when I open
>    RobMcG> the bitmap device on my Linux box.
>
>    RobMcG> The easiest solution would seem to be to intercept any file names in the
>    RobMcG> form "~/abc.png" and replace the "~" with the user's home directory. I'm
>    RobMcG> sure I could come up with something involving regular expressions and
>    RobMcG> system calls to do this in Linux, but even that might not be system
>    RobMcG> independent. So, I wanted to see if anyone knew of a native R solution
>    RobMcG> of converting "~" to its full path expansion.
>
>    RobMcG> Thanks,
>    RobMcG> Robert
>
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