Ben Bolker gmail.com> writes:
>
Bump. Will I be scolded if I submit this as a bug report/wishlist
item?
Test case:
> fn <- "tmp.dat"
> x <- 1:3
> dump("x",file=fn)
> file.info(fn) ## 9 bytes
> file.copy(paste("./",fn,sep=""),fn,overwrite=TRUE)
> file.info(fn) ## 0 bytes (!!)
malizePath(c("usr", "/nfs/seabldlnx3201/usr", "/nfs/sea-union/usr"))
[1] "/nfs/sea-union/usr" "/nfs/seabldlnx3201/usr" "/nfs/sea-union/usr"
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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Try this:
fn <- "tmp.dat"
x <- 1:3
dump("x",file=fn)
file.info(fn) ## 9 bytes
file.copy(paste("./",fn,sep=""),fn,overwrite=TRUE)
file.info(fn) ## 0 bytes (!!)
Normally file.copy() checks and disallows overwriting a file with
itself, but it only checks whether character string '
