[R] Open a file which name contains a tilde

[Frank Schwidom]

Hi,

As I can see via path.expand a filename which contains a tilde anywhere gets automatically crippled.

+> path.expand("a ~ b")
[1] "a /home/user b"

+> path.expand("a ~ b ~")
[1] "a /home/user b /home/user"

I want to open a file regardless whether its name contains any character unless 0.

The unix filesystem allow the creation of such files, it sould be possible to open these.

How can I switch off any file crippling activity?

Kind regards,
Frank