Sorry, forgot the session info.

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


Rui Barradas
Em 08-12-2012 11:38, Rui Barradas escreveu:
Hello,

A post to R-Help by Oliver Soong reports what seems to be a bug specific to Windows (I'm on Windows 7).
The original post is as follows:

----------------------------------------------------------------
from: Oliver Soong <osoon...@gmail.com>
to: r-help <r-h...@r-project.org>
date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 22:07:49 -0800
subject: [R] file.link fails on NTFS

Windows 7 64-bit, R 2.15.2 i386.  Working directory is on an NTFS drive.

writeLines("", "file.txt")
file.link("file.txt", "link.txt")

Warning in file.link("file.txt", "link.txt") :
  cannot link 'link.txt' to 'link.txt', reason 'The system cannot find
the file specified'

No link is created.  The 'link.txt' to 'link.txt' is suspicious. Does
this happen to anybody else?  I didn't find anything in my searches.

Oliver

----------------------------------------------------------------
The above code runs with no problems on Ubuntu 12.04/ R 2.15.2, file.link returns TRUE. I've checked the sources and .Internal calls "file.link", executing do_filelink(). The segment in file src/main/platform.c seems right, not mistaking argument 'from' for 'to':

#ifdef Win32
        wchar_t *from, *to;

        from = filenameToWchar(STRING_ELT(f1, i%n1), TRUE);
        to = filenameToWchar(STRING_ELT(f2, i%n2), TRUE);
        LOGICAL(ans)[i] = CreateHardLinkW(to, from, NULL) != 0;
        if(!LOGICAL(ans)[i]) {
        warning(_("cannot link '%ls' to '%ls', reason '%s'"),
            from, to, formatError(GetLastError()));
        }
#else


But there's something going on. The link is not created and the warning message is wrong.

Bug report? (Why CreateHardLinkW, and not CreateHardLink?)

Rui Barradas

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