> path.expand("~")
[1] "/home/maechler"
>>>>> "RobMcG" == McGehee, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Fri, 25 May 2007 11:44:27 -0400 writes:
RobMcG> R-Help,
RobMcG> I discovered a "mis-feature" is ghostscript, which is used by the
bitmap
RobMcG> function. It seems that specifying file names in the form
"~/abc.png"
RobMcG> rather than "/home/directory/abc.png" causes my GS to crash when I
open
RobMcG> the bitmap device on my Linux box.
RobMcG> The easiest solution would seem to be to intercept any file names
in the
RobMcG> form "~/abc.png" and replace the "~" with the user's home
directory. I'm
RobMcG> sure I could come up with something involving regular expressions
and
RobMcG> system calls to do this in Linux, but even that might not be system
RobMcG> independent. So, I wanted to see if anyone knew of a native R
solution
RobMcG> of converting "~" to its full path expansion.
RobMcG> Thanks,
RobMcG> Robert
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