[Rd] utils::unzip ignores overwrite argument, effectively

[Tomas Kalibera]

Thanks, fixed in R-devel.
Tomas

On 12/20/2017 02:38 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> It does give a warning, but then it overwrites the files, anyway.
> Reproducible example below.
>
> This is R 3.4.3, but it does not seem to be fixed in R-devel:
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/4a9ca3e5ac6b19d7faa7c9290374f7604bf0ef64/src/main/dounzip.c#L171-L174
>
> FYI,
> Gábor
>
> dir.create(tmp <- tempfile())
> setwd(tmp)
>
> cat("old1\n", file = "file1")
> cat("old2\n", file = "file2")
>
> utils::zip("files.zip", c("file1", "file2"))
> #>   adding: file1 (stored 0%)
> #>   adding: file2 (stored 0%)
>
> unlink("file2")
> cat("new1\n", file = "file1")
> readLines("file1")
> #> [1] "new1"
>
> utils::unzip("files.zip", overwrite = FALSE)
> #> Warning message:
> #> In utils::unzip("files.zip", overwrite = FALSE) :
> #>    not overwriting file './file1
>
> readLines("file1")
> #> [1] "old1"
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel