On 2019-06-05 20:32:07, Enrico Schumann wrote:
> >>>>> "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
>
Appendix:
I found out in the meantime that I can use 'R --no-readline' but I want to use
readline and I found no possible readline configuration /etc/inputrc).
And maybe it works as Rscript.
But that should be more consistent because it is in fact very basic.
Kind regards,
Frank
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