FWIW, as far as I can tell, Sys.readlink() still doesn't handle
symlinks (or junction points) on Windows. Were you thinking of
normalizePath()? That does now resolve both symlinks and junction
points on Windows (courtesy of a lot of work from Tomas), although I
don't recall the exact versions in wh
> On 17. Feb 2024, at 09:16, Henrik Bengtsson
> wrote:
>
> I can confirm that this has to fixed in R.utils. This gist is that
> R.utils does lots of validation of read/write permissions, and deep
> down it rely on system("dir") as a fallback method. If this is down
> toward dirname(tempdir()),
I can confirm that this has to fixed in R.utils. This gist is that
R.utils does lots of validation of read/write permissions, and deep
down it rely on system("dir") as a fallback method. If this is down
toward dirname(tempdir()), then it'll find a lot of files, e.g.
[1] " Datenträger in Laufwe
Author of R.utils here. I happen to investigate this too right now,
because of extremely slow win-builder performance of R.rsp checks,
which in turn depends on R.utils.
It's not obvious to me why this happens on win-builder. I've noticed
slower and slower win-builder/cran-incoming checks over the
