On 14/11/2007 7:44 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Nov 14, 2007 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Unix-alikes, the workaround is to build soft links to all the >> packages in a standard location; but soft links don't work on Windows >> (and we don't want to get into the almost-undocumented hard links that >> exist on some Windows file systems). > > Symbolic links are available on Windows Vista:
Does this work on FAT file systems, e.g. on a USB drive? It used to be that they only worked on NTFS. Duncan Murdoch > > C:\> mklink /? > Creates a symbolic link. > > MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target > > /D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file > symbolic link. > /H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link. > /J Creates a Directory Junction. > Link specifies the new symbolic link name. > Target specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link > refers to. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel