Open a file which name contains a tilde
Hi Frank, I'm hesitant to be "that guy", but in case no one else has brought this up to you, having files with a tilde in their names (generally but especially on a linux system, where ~ in file names has a very important special meaning in some cases, as we know) strikes me as an exceptionally bad practice anyway. In light of that, the solution with the smallest amount of pain for you is almost surely to just... not do that. Your filenames will be better for it anyway. There is a reason no one has complained about this before, and while I haven't run a study or anything, I strongly suspect its that "everyone" else is already on the "no tildes in filenames" bandwagon, so this behavior, even if technically a bug, has no ability to cause them problems. Best, ~G
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:25 AM Frank Schwidom <schwidom at gmx.net> wrote:
Hi, yes, I have seen this package and it has the same tilde expanding problem. Please excuse me I will cc this answer to r-help and r-devel to keep the discussion running. Kind regards, Frank Schwidom On 2019-06-11 09:12:36, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:
Just in case, have you seen the fs package? https://fs.r-lib.org/ Gabor On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:51 AM Frank Schwidom <schwidom at gmx.net> wrote:
Hi, to get rid of any possible filename modification I started a little
project to cover my usecase:
https://github.com/schwidom/simplefs This is my first R package, suggestions and a review are welcome. Thanks in advance Frank Schwidom On 2019-06-07 09:04:06, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
How can expanding tildes anywhere but the beginning of a file
name NOT be
considered a bug? On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 at 23:04, Ivan Krylov <[1]
krylov.r00t at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 18:07:15 +0200
Frank Schwidom <[2]schwidom at 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
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