On 28-09-2013, at 19:51, Jonathan Greenberg <j...@illinois.edu> wrote:
> Thanks all -- ok, so the symbolic link issue is a distinct > possibility, but fundamentally doesn't solve the issue since most > users will have symbolic links on their machines SOMEPLACE, so a full > drive scan will run into these issues -- is list.files calling find, > or is it using a different algorithm? This seems like a shortcoming > in the list.files algorithm -- is there a better solution (short of a > System call, which I'm still not sure will work on Macs without Xcode > -- a colleague of mine did NOT have Xcode, and reported not being able > to run find from the command line) -- perhaps a different package? > Since Mac OS X Tiger at least there is a find utility. By doing a search here http://www.opensource.apple.com you can see that there is a find utility since 10.0 (to be found here http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/shell_cmds/shell_cmds-17.1/ ). There must be something wrong with your colleague's setup. Berend ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.