Dear R-Devel,
I've run into an issue with a package (vcfR) that uses file.access to check
a file is readable before opening it. The issue is actually in base R
though. I've looked into the package code, and it calls file.access(path,
mode = 4). I've created a minimal working example of the code in
an error, which seems to be a fine behavior
> for me. It is not surprising to me that in some cases (like working on a
> local copy of a file in a distributed file-system), the OS would not know
> whether a file is readable/writeable before trying out on/syncing the
> distributed version.
>
