Re: [Rd] Writing files with long paths on Windows fails even after enabling long paths

2019-07-24 Thread Tomas Kalibera
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

[Rd] Writing files with long paths on Windows fails even after enabling long paths

2019-07-23 Thread Kenny Bell
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