[Rd] loading library from network share (PR#8982)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is not supported: network shares are a Windows 'feature' and not part 
of R's conception of file paths.  The specific issue here is dirname(), 
but it is widespread.

You can always map shares to network drives, and that is common practice 
everywhere I have been which has extensive Windows networks.

We have changed the dirname case, but have no intention of supporting this 
sort of file path in general, as one of the design goals of the Windows 
port of R was to work as similarly to the Unix-alikes as possible (and to 
share as much code as possible).

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, roy_kuraisa at merck.com wrote:

> Full_Name: roy kuraisa
> Version: 2.2.1
> OS: Windows XP SP2
> Submission from: (NULL) (155.91.28.232)
>
>
> When loading a library from network share drive (e.g., \\nnn\f1\f2\p1), when
> First.lib is called, the libray name contains "/" instead of "\" resulting in an
> invalid Windows filepath.
>
> Here's an example:
>> From R,
>> library(foo.lib="\\\\kodak\\research_genetics\\rlibs");
> Within First.lib,
> .First.lib <-function(lib, pkg)
> {
>    cat("lib name ",lib,"\n")
> }
> produces the output
>   lib name //kodak/research_genetics/rlibs
>
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