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-spec
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