[Rd] A strange behaviour of file.path in Windows? (PR#13119)

[Richard.Cotton at hsl.gov.uk]

> If you send these lines of code:
> 
> outdir="c:/pippo"
> file.path(outdir,"pluto.html")
> 
> R replies correctly:
> 
> [1] "c:/pippo/pluto.html"
> 
> But if you change the first steps to:
> 
> outdir=""
> file.path(outdir,"pluto.html")
> 
> R replies (uncorrectly, I think)
> 
> [1] "/c:/pippo/pluto.html"

I don't get the same output as you.  Are you sure you haven't changed 
output somewhere else in your code?

outdir="c:/pippo"
file.path(outdir,"pluto.html")

[1] "c:/pippo/pluto.html"

outdir=""
file.path(outdir,"pluto.html")

[1] "/pluto.html"

This is under R2.7.2/ Win XP.

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL


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