[R] Open a file which name contains a tilde

[Frank Schwidom]

On 2019-06-05 20:32:07, Enrico Schumann wrote:
> >>>>> "FS" == Frank Schwidom <schwidom using gmx.net> writes:
>
>     FS> Hi,
>     FS> As I can see via path.expand a filename which contains a tilde anywhere gets automatically crippled.
>
>     FS> +> path.expand("a ~ b")
>     FS> [1] "a /home/user b"
>
>     FS> +> path.expand("a ~ b ~")
>     FS> [1] "a /home/user b /home/user"
>
>     FS> I want to open a file regardless whether its name contains any character unless 0.
>
>     FS> The unix filesystem allow the creation of such files, it sould be possible to open these.
>
>     FS> How can I switch off any file crippling activity?
>
>     FS> Kind regards,
>     FS> Frank
>
> Do you need 'path.expand'? For example,
>
>     readLines("~/Desktop/a ~ b")
>
> reads just fine the content of a file named
> 'a ~ b' on my desktop.
>
>
> --
> Enrico Schumann
> Lucerne, Switzerland
> http://enricoschumann.net
>

Appendix:

I found out in the meantime that I can use 'R --no-readline' but I want to use readline and I found no possible readline configuration /etc/inputrc).

And maybe it works as Rscript.

But that should be more consistent because it is in fact very basic.

Kind regards,
Frank