Try ?path.expand
On 5/25/07, McGehee, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R-Help, > I discovered a "mis-feature" is ghostscript, which is used by the bitmap > function. It seems that specifying file names in the form "~/abc.png" > rather than "/home/directory/abc.png" causes my GS to crash when I open > the bitmap device on my Linux box. > > The easiest solution would seem to be to intercept any file names in the > form "~/abc.png" and replace the "~" with the user's home directory. I'm > sure I could come up with something involving regular expressions and > system calls to do this in Linux, but even that might not be system > independent. So, I wanted to see if anyone knew of a native R solution > of converting "~" to its full path expansion. > > Thanks, > Robert > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.