On 20/02/2009, at 1:29 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:
Dear Rolf,
By default, the file system is not case-sensitive.
So the answer to file.exists(".Rdata") is correct. And you won't be
able to write .RData without overwriting .Rdata
You can format a drive with a case-sensitive file system if you wish
(Spotlight:Disk Utility), but many applications won't be happy to find
folders containing files with the same (insensitive) name inside.
So I'd probably be opening a massive can of worms for myself if I tried
to go the re-formatting route. I guess I'll just have to live with the
case-insensitivity. It seems a really dumb design choice on the part
of Apple, but. They have a perfectly good Unix system underlying their
shaganappi GUI structure, but they let it get mucked up by this case-
insensitivity
shambles.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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