[R] file.link fails on NTFS

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Checks. It seems like a Windows specific bug, it works on Ubuntu 12.04/R 
2.15.2. I'll post to R-devel.

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base



Rui Barradas
Em 08-12-2012 06:07, Oliver Soong escreveu:
> Windows 7 64-bit, R 2.15.2 i386.  Working directory is on an NTFS drive.
>
>> writeLines("", "file.txt")
>> file.link("file.txt", "link.txt")
> Warning in file.link("file.txt", "link.txt") :
>    cannot link 'link.txt' to 'link.txt', reason 'The system cannot find
> the file specified'
>
> No link is created.  The 'link.txt' to 'link.txt' is suspicious.  Does
> this happen to anybody else?  I didn't find anything in my searches.
>
> Oliver
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