On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Full_Name: Enrico Pegoraro
Version: 2.7.2
OS: Windows (Vista or Xp PRO) Italian
Submission from: (NULL) (87.4.189.202)
If you send these lines of code:
outdir="c:/pippo"
file.path(outdir,"pluto.html")
R replies correctly:
[1] "c:/pippo/pluto.html"
But if you change the first steps to:
outdir=""
file.path(outdir,"pluto.html")
R replies (uncorrectly, I think)
[1] "/c:/pippo/pluto.html"
Not for me! I get
outdir=""
file.path(outdir,"pluto.html")
[1] "/pluto.html"
which is as documented, hence correct. Furthermore, the code cannot
possibly give your answer unless 'c:/pippo' has some special status on
your system, and you haven't told us anything about that.
If you do
file.path("", "c:/pippo", "pluto.html")
you get what you indicate, but that is user error (an empty server/share
specification).
This problem influence the R2HTML package too, which, if you send a line as:
targetHtml=HTMLInitFile(outdir="",filename="htmlFile",Title ="Title")
in windows it submit an error because of file.path() error.
It will affect any such misuse of file.path, of course. It really is not
a good idea to use empty file path elements, especially on Windows[*].
If you mean the current directory, use ".".
[*] On Unix // is equivalent to /. On Windows \\ or // may have a special
meaning (a share) or be regarded as invalid. A trailing / or \ can be
disastrous.
Thank you
Enrico
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