[R] File path expansion

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try

?path.expand

On 5/25/07, McGehee, Robert <Robert.McGehee at geodecapital.com> wrote:
> R-Help,
> I discovered a "mis-feature" is ghostscript, which is used by the bitmap
> function. It seems that specifying file names in the form "~/abc.png"
> rather than "/home/directory/abc.png" causes my GS to crash when I open
> the bitmap device on my Linux box.
>
> The easiest solution would seem to be to intercept any file names in the
> form "~/abc.png" and replace the "~" with the user's home directory. I'm
> sure I could come up with something involving regular expressions and
> system calls to do this in Linux, but even that might not be system
> independent. So, I wanted to see if anyone knew of a native R solution
> of converting "~" to its full path expansion.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
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