Should file.access(as.character(NA)) return -1 to be consisting with non-existing files?
> file.access(c("Non-existing-file", NA), mode=1) Non-existing-file <NA> -1 0 > file.access(c("Non-existing-file", NA), mode=2) Non-existing-file <NA> -1 0 > file.access(c("Non-existing-file", NA), mode=4) Non-existing-file <NA> -1 0 /Henrik > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 Patched (2009-12-24 r50837) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel