On Fri, 25 May 2007, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>> path.expand("~")
> [1] "/home/maechler"
Yes, but beware that may not do what you want on Windows in R <= 2.5.0,
since someone changed the definition of 'home' but not path.expand.
>
>>>>>> "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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