If we are fiddling with normalizePath, having a way of not following
symlinks (otheer than ~) would be useful as well.
I had to write normalizePath2 in switchr for a specific on-the-ground need
to NOT go down all he way to physical paths on a remote compute system
because of how IT handled imple
This request stems off a bug report I posted
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17757 where it was
determined the current behaviour is as expected.
To recap: when given a real file, normalizePath() always* returns the full
absolute path. When given a non-existent file, normalizePa
