On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Martin Morgan wrote:
A little more precisely, unlink fails when the file being unlinked is
a broken symbolic link (as in the example below). This is because
R_FileExists checks stat() == 0, and stat fails (returns -1) when
trying to resolve the broken link. Perhaps lstat() i
A little more precisely, unlink fails when the file being unlinked is
a broken symbolic link (as in the example below). This is because
R_FileExists checks stat() == 0, and stat fails (returns -1) when
trying to resolve the broken link. Perhaps lstat() is more
appropriate?
Martin
Martin Morgan w
unlink fails to remove symbolic links. This is more prominent now --
when a package creates symbolic links during installation, 00LOCK is
not removed.
Martin
> setwd(tempdir())
> fl <- tempfile(); file.create(fl)
[1] TRUE
> lnFile <- tempfile(); system(paste("ln -s", fl, lnFile))
> list.files()
[
