On Mon, 14 May 2007, Ernest Turro wrote: > tempdir() on windows returns the path using "\\" as file separator.
Yes, it is explicitly documented to. > But .Platform$file.sep returns "/". As a result, you get > inconsistencies like: > > > file.path(tempdir(), "foo") > > [1] "C:\\WINDOWS\\Temp\\RtmpYEIXrb/foo" # Mix of \\ and / > > I'm not sure if this can cause problems but I thought I'd let you > know just in case. It doesn't cause problems AFAIK. The main place you need \ is when passing filepaths to a Windows shell, a few Windows executables and a very few API functions (where we convert in the wrappers). OTOH, / is needed when passing to a Unix-like shell, make .... Note that e.g. shell() on Windows has an argument to translate / to \ if necessary. There is a problem with network shares like \\machine\path\to\file. Those are essentially incompatible with POSIX and a lot of the tools we use for R, but I've started to make them work as far as is practicable. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
