[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I get different behavior on Linux:
>
> system("mkdir newdir")
> dir("newdir", all.files = TRUE, recursive = TRUE) ## R hangs
The point is that all.files=TRUE implies returning also "." and ".."!
Hence the recursion uses to be infinite (from "." to "." to "." ......).
If recursiv = TRUE, the function should never look into "." and "..",
except of the first step of the recursion.
Uwe Ligges
> ## After hitting Ctrl-C
> There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)
> > dir("newdir", all.files = TRUE, recursive = TRUE)
> character(0)
> Warning message:
> list.files: newdir is not a readable directory
>
> After hitting Ctrl-C the first time, dir() doesn't hang but it
> produces the warning.
>
> > version
> _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch i686
> os linux-gnu
> system i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major 1
> minor 9.1
> year 2004
> month 06
> day 21
> language R
>
> -roger
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>>list.files("c:/tmp", all.files = TRUE, recursive = TRUE)
>>
>>Error in list.files("c:/tmp", all.files = TRUE, recursive = TRUE) :
>> directory/folder path name too long
>>
>>
>>
>>>version
>>
>> _
>>platform i386-pc-mingw32
>>arch i386
>>os mingw32
>>system i386, mingw32
>>status
>>major 1
>>minor 9.1
>>year 2004
>>month 06
>>day 21
>>language R
>>
>>
>>Best
>>
>>
>>Jens Oehlschlägel
>>
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