>>>>> "FS" == Frank Schwidom <schwi...@gmx.net> writes:
FS> Hi,
FS> As I can see via path.expand a filename which contains a tilde anywhere
gets automatically crippled.
FS> +> path.expand("a ~ b")
FS> [1] "a /home/user b"
FS> +> path.expand("a ~ b ~")
FS> [1] "a /home/user b /home/user"
FS> I want to open a file regardless whether its name contains any
character unless 0.
FS> The unix filesystem allow the creation of such files, it sould be
possible to open these.
FS> How can I switch off any file crippling activity?
FS> Kind regards,
FS> Frank
Do you need 'path.expand'? For example,
readLines("~/Desktop/a ~ b")
reads just fine the content of a file named
'a ~ b' on my desktop.
--
Enrico Schumann
Lucerne, Switzerland
http://enricoschumann.net
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