Mmh,
> > Point is, I gather, that trailing slashes are removed, e.g.,
> >
> > viggo:~/>basename foo/
> > foo
> >
> > So, not a bug.
This unfortunately means that we cannot distinguish between
1) a path with a filename
2) a path without a filename
For example in the next version of the ff-package we allow a user to specify a
'pattern' for all files of a ff dataframe which is path together with a
fileprefix, the above means we cannot specify an empty prefix "" for the
current working directory, because
> dirname("./.")
[1] "."
> basename("./.")
[1] "."
> dirname("./")
[1] "."
> basename("./")
[1] "."
Jens Oehlschlägel
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