Thanks for the note. R uses MAX_PATH internally at a number of places
(both directly in Windows specific code and indirectly via PATH_MAX to
reflect POSIX) and sometimes uses POSIX functions to access files and
directories, so it would be a non-trivial change and would require more
Windows-specific code in the code base. I expect external libraries to
also depend on MAX_PATH and sometimes use POSIX functions (when
supported on Windows) to access files and directories. Mingw which we
use on Windows also has PATH_MAX derived from MAX_PATH to reflect POSIX
behavior and allow use of POSIX-like functions. It is hence even
unclear how big effect this change if done in R could have on R end
users, the limit would just remain in many situations. So I am afraid
the path length limit on Windows in R cannot be removed/increased in the
near future. Please feel free to submit a wishlist report to bugzilla,
where this could be revisited in the future.
Best
Tomas
On 7/24/19 8:43 AM, Kenny Bell wrote:
Hello all,
We now can have long file paths on Windows by setting the LongPathsEnabled
key to 1 at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
in the Registry Editor. I can successfully rename files to have long paths
in File Explorer.
R still isn't able to take advantage of the change, however:
write(1, paste0(paste(sample(letters, 265, TRUE), collapse = ''), '.txt'))
#> Warning in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")): cannot open file
#>
'mbpbzpgivtyhuugkkbcfxlvdzhsujaivaissyhivwqdxixmbnzctxlplazgtewpiioyxielkbohmvejcdkhcjmqtjyieymccrfquiwepngrseroiolayuucevztmqemnlnvfsshyhhggakxfemzzovwikusqtfeslwevxqmvufuyyvgvwwubmmpzvlcwaiwhipumrzphyeziwibisxszqrouekuonzjlaztdtonuupniqmxsaifpvkcldftkgnkozntgndwfu.txt':
#> No such file or directory
#> Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")): cannot open the connection
I have read that long paths will be enabled by default in some future
release of Windows.
Hope this helps,
Kenny
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