normalizePath output depends on existence of directory

Dear all,


I'm not sure whether this is intended behaviour or a bug. The path returns
from normalizePath is different when the directory doesn't exist. I have
included a reproducible example.

path <- tempfile()
missing.dir <- normalizePath(path, winslash = "/", mustWork = FALSE)
dir.create(path)
existing.dir <- normalizePath(path, winslash = "/", mustWork = FALSE)

all.equal(missing.dir, existing.dir)

[1] "1 string mismatch"

missing.dir

[1] "C:/Users/THIERR~2/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpagA8Gx/filed5c2cd03543"

existing.dir

[1]
"C:/Users/thierry_onkelinx/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpagA8Gx/filed5c2cd03543"

sessionInfo()

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Dutch_Belgium.1252  LC_CTYPE=Dutch_Belgium.1252
  LC_MONETARY=Dutch_Belgium.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=Dutch_Belgium.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] fortunes_1.5-2 tools_3.1.2

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

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