[I found this message still sitting in my outbox - better late than never]
Hi,
it should have been "K:" instead of "K" in those examples. However,
forget about what I said, because it (subst) turns out it will not
work with UNC paths, cf. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/218740.
Sorry for the no
Thanks Henrik, but I have 2 reasons for not using that approach:
A) If I don't map the drive until after R starts the UNC path is already
present in several places I know about and probably some I don't, leading to
the problems I started with.
So reason 'B' doesn't really matter to me, but as a
I think you can also do this from within R (e.g. in your .Rprofile)
using the R.utils package;
library("R.utils")
System$mapDriveOnWindows("K", "campden\\shares\\Workgroup\\Stats")
driveLetters <- System$getMappedDrivesOnWindows()
System$unmapDriveOnWindows("K")
These methods utilize 'subst'
Just to close this off, in case it helps anyone else in a similar
situation...
Background: I have R installed on a UNC share with a site library named by
major and minor version, thus:
\\campden\shares\Workgroup\Stats 'root'
\\campden\shares\Workgroup\Stats\R base for R related things
\\campden
Thanks Uwe.
I'm aware (and have been forcefully reminded) that using a mapped drive
avoids these problems. But there is no single drive letter which I can use
site-wide, so I have problems with things like R_LIBS_SITE. As I've outlined
I'm exploring a range of solutions, including mapping a dri
Hi,
Back in June I posted the message below, but had no replies. I've made a
little progress since then so this is to update anyone interested (!) and to
ask for comments.
Brief problem statement:
Under Windows, some parts of R don't handle UNC paths beginning with
backslashes. Specifically
a)
This is extremely tricky since Windows does not always accept "//"
rather than "\\". Additionally, there is not implemented system call in
Windows, hence ?Sys.glob tells us a "partial emulation" is provided and
"An attempt is made to handle UNC paths starting with a double backslash."
As you h
Hi,
Back in June I posted the message below, but had no replies. I've made a
little progress since then so this is to update anyone interested (!) and to
ask for comments.
Brief problem statement:
Under Windows, some parts of R don't handle UNC paths beginning with
backslashes. Specifically
a)
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