On Fri, 25 May 2007, Martin Maechler wrote: > >> path.expand("~") > [1] "/home/maechler"
Yes, but beware that may not do what you want on Windows in R <= 2.5.0, since someone changed the definition of 'home' but not path.expand. > >>>>>> "RobMcG" == McGehee, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Fri, 25 May 2007 11:44:27 -0400 writes: > > RobMcG> R-Help, > RobMcG> I discovered a "mis-feature" is ghostscript, which is used by the > bitmap > RobMcG> function. It seems that specifying file names in the form > "~/abc.png" > RobMcG> rather than "/home/directory/abc.png" causes my GS to crash when I > open > RobMcG> the bitmap device on my Linux box. > > RobMcG> The easiest solution would seem to be to intercept any file names > in the > RobMcG> form "~/abc.png" and replace the "~" with the user's home > directory. I'm > RobMcG> sure I could come up with something involving regular expressions > and > RobMcG> system calls to do this in Linux, but even that might not be system > RobMcG> independent. So, I wanted to see if anyone knew of a native R > solution > RobMcG> of converting "~" to its full path expansion. > > RobMcG> Thanks, > RobMcG> Robert > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.