File path expansion
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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