Dear all,
while preparing some exercises I came across some highly surprising
behaviour of file.exists(). The specific value "prn.us.txt" always returns
TRUE, even though that file is nowhere to be found on my system.
In a fresh R session 3.4.4 installed on Windows 10:
> grep("prn.us.txt", dir(recursive = TRUE))
integer(0)
> file.exists("prn.us.txt")
[1] TRUE
> file.exists("pnr.us.txt")
[1] FALSE
> file.exists("prn\\.us\\.txt")
[1] FALSE
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 16299)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.4
This also happens in 3.4.3, 3.4.2 and 3.4.1 . It is confirmed by Roman
Lustrik on his system as well :
https://twitter.com/romunov/status/977486929380995072
I suspect this is a bug, or I must be missing something completely.
Cheers
Joris
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