Ernest Turro wrote:
> It seems unlink doesn't work with wildcards in 2.5.0. I've tried
> R-2.5.0 under gnu/linux from source and the Mac binary from att
> research. Example:
>
> > dir()
> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf" "run.1"
> > unlink("run.*",recursive=T)
> > dir()
> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf" "run.1"
> > unlink("run.1",recursive=T)
> > dir()
> [1] "bgx.Rnw" "bgx.pdf"
>
>
Yes. The argument is now passed through shQuote, and that has the side
effect of removing wildcard expansions. If this was intentional, someone
forgot to change the help page...
Presumably, the change was done to prevent issues with embedded spaces:
unlink("Program Files") would otherwise delete "Program" and "Files". It
is not obvious to me how this can be achieved while retaining wildcard
expansion.
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