[R] Open a file which name contains a tilde

[Ivan Krylov]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 18:07:15 +0200
Frank Schwidom <schwidom using gmx.net> wrote:

> +> path.expand("a ~ b")  
> [1] "a /home/user b"

> How can I switch off any file crippling activity?

It doesn't seem to be possible if readline is enabled and works
correctly.

Calls to path.expand [1] end up [2] in R_ExpandFileName [3], which
calls R_ExpandFileName_readline [4], which uses libreadline function
tilde_expand [5]. tilde_expand seems to be designed to expand '~'
anywhere in the string it is handed, i.e. operate on whole command
lines, not file paths.

I am taking the liberty of Cc-ing R-devel in case this can be
considered a bug.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan

[1]
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/main/names.c#L807

[2]
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/main/platform.c#L1915

[3]
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/unix/sys-unix.c#L147

[4]
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/unix/sys-std.c#L494

[5]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/tree/tilde.c?h=devel#n187