Dean, I filed a patch for this in bugzilla yesterday so depending on reception this should be fixed in devel soon.
Best, ~G On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 3:58 AM Dean Attali <daatt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've reproduced on ubuntu and winodws with R3.4.3 > > When the filepath contains a tilde, the result is NA. But if the file path > is expanded then the function works. > > Example: > tools::md5sum("~/.Rprofile") returns NA > tools::md5sum(normalizePath("~/.Rprofile")) returns the proper md5 > > > Perhaps this is expected behaviour because the documentation does say NA is > returned for unreadable files, but I didn't think "~" would make a file > unreadable to the function. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel