Dear Bill, The culprit was the environment variable HOME which was set to "~". Changing it to "C:/Users/thierry_onkelinx/Documents" solved the problem. Thanks for the hint.
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey 2015-08-11 17:39 GMT+02:00 William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com>: > In the R GUI the output is > > path.expand("~") > [1] "~" > > Did you set the environment variable R_USER to something odd like "~"? > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Thierry Onkelinx < > thierry.onkel...@inbo.be> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm puzzled by the behaviour of path.expand("~") >> >> In the RStudio IDE the output is >> > path.expand("~") >> [1] "C:/Users/thierry_onkelinx/Documents" >> >> In the R GUI the output is >> > path.expand("~") >> [1] "~" >> >> But I'm expecting the same result as in the RStudio IDE. The "Start in" >> parameter of shortcut to the R GUI has the value >> "C:\Users\thierry_onkelinx\Documents" >> >> The problem is that I use normalizePath("~/analysis"). This >> yield "C:\\Users\\thierry_onkelinx\\Documents\\analysis" in RStudio >> >> It throws an error in the R GUI >> "C:\\Users\\thierry_onkelinx\\Documents\\~\\analysis" >> Warning message: >> In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) : >> path[1]="~/analysis": Het systeem kan het opgegeven pad niet vinden >> >> # sessionInfo() in RStudio >> R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) >> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) >> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_COLLATE=Dutch_Belgium.1252 LC_CTYPE=Dutch_Belgium.1252 >> LC_MONETARY=Dutch_Belgium.1252 >> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=Dutch_Belgium.1252 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] tools_3.2.1 fortunes_1.5-2 >> >> # sessionInfo() from R GUI >> R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) >> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) >> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_COLLATE=Dutch_Belgium.1252 LC_CTYPE=Dutch_Belgium.1252 >> [3] LC_MONETARY=Dutch_Belgium.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [5] LC_TIME=Dutch_Belgium.1252 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] tools_3.2.1 fortunes_1.5-2 >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> ir. Thierry Onkelinx >> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and >> Forest >> team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance >> Kliniekstraat 25 >> 1070 Anderlecht >> Belgium >> >> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more >> than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to >> say >> what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher >> The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner >> The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not >> ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of >> data. >> ~ John Tukey >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.