> I think that ignoring a terminal slash/backslash on Windows would do no > harm:
Windows makes a distinction between "C:" and "C:/": the former is not a file (or directory) and the latter is. Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of Kirill Müller > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 9:26 AM > To: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] file.exists does not like path names ending in / > > On 01/17/2014 02:56 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > At the moment I am using this to avoid the > > problem: > > > > File.exists <- function(x) { > > if (.Platform$OS == "windows" && grepl("[/\\]$", x)) { > > file.exists(dirname(x)) > > } else file.exists(x) > > } > > > > but it would be nice if that could be done by file.exists itself. > I think that ignoring a terminal slash/backslash on Windows would do no > harm: It would improve consistency between platforms, and perhaps nobody > really relies on the current behavior. Would shorten the documentation, too. > > > -Kirill > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
