The incorrect result incurs when the file path contains Chinese character. It seems that dirname/basename action on unit of byte instead of char, so the result in the following example is half of what is expected.
> g<-"d:\\如果含有中文\\如果含有中文.txt" > dirname(g) [1] "d:/如果含" > basename(g) [1] "如果含有" -- HUANG Ronggui, Wincent http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/ Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China Master of sociology, Fudan University, China Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
