Re the trailing path separator - should file.path() be changed to not
produce doubled path separators when an argument has a trailing path
separator?
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:24 AM Tomas Kalibera
wrote:
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> Hi Jiefei,
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> the change in handling tra
Hi Jiefei,
the change in handling trailing path separators is not on purpose, but
is a byproduct of a new implementation of normalizePath, which now
handles symbolic links and normalizes case in long path names. It is not
documented what happens to trailing separators, and hence portable
pr
Hi all,
I saw a quite surprising result in the devel R when using the function
*normalizePath*. If the input is a path to a folder, the function returns
an absolute path with/without a slash at the end depending on the existence
of the folder. I know both results are valid on Windows but this beha