Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Thomas Lumley wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, David R. Bickel wrote:
>
> > Thanks for telling me about file.path. That solves the problem of the
> > different separators, but UNIX begins the home path with "/" and MacOS
> > begins the home path with the name of the hard disk.
> >
>
> The opposite problem also occurs when one wants a relative path
> ":some:long:path"
> is the Mac equivalent of
> "some/long/path"
>
> Perhaps file.path() should have an absolute/relative path option?
>
> -thomas
>
>
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