[R] Windows R doesn't recognize shortcuts ?

[Keith Jewell]

On 23/07/2014 14:21, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 23/07/2014 9:08 AM, ce wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In Windows 7 , R installation:
>>
>> R version 3.1.1 Patched (2014-07-14 r66149) -- "Sock it to Me"
>> Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>
>> it doesn't recognize shortcuts in path :
>>
>> >  list.files(path = "cygwin")
>> character(0)
>>
>> cygwin is a shortcut,  in properties window  Target shows :
>> C:\Users\me\cygwin64\home\me
>> Real path works :
>>
>> list.files(path = "C:/Users/me/cygwin64/home/me")
>>    [1] "1010week.sh"            "10week.sh"
>> "a.R"                    "aa.sh"
>>
>
> I don't think R should recognize that.  Windows wouldn't recognize it
> either, if you used "dir cygwin" in a shell, for example.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
The "shortcut" which appears as cygwin is actually a file
called cygwin.lnk

readWindowsShellLink {R.utils} reads such files:
 > readWindowsShellLink(con="cygwin.lnk")