[Rd] [R] Open a file which name contains a tilde

[Frank Schwidom]

Hi,

to get rid of any possible filename modification I started a little project to cover my usecase:

https://github.com/schwidom/simplefs

This is my first R package, suggestions and a review are welcome.

Thanks in advance
Frank Schwidom

On 2019-06-07 09:04:06, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>    How can expanding tildes anywhere but the beginning of a file name NOT be
>    considered a bug?
>    On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 at 23:04, Ivan Krylov <[1]krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>      On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 18:07:15 +0200
>      Frank Schwidom <[2]schwidom using gmx.net> wrote:
>
>      > +> path.expand("a ~ b") 
>      > [1] "a /home/user b"
>
>      > How can I switch off any file crippling activity?
>
>      It doesn't seem to be possible if readline is enabled and works
>      correctly.
>
>      Calls to path.expand [1] end up [2] in R_ExpandFileName [3], which
>      calls R_ExpandFileName_readline [4], which uses libreadline function
>      tilde_expand [5]. tilde_expand seems to be designed to expand '~'
>      anywhere in the string it is handed, i.e. operate on whole command
>      lines, not file paths.
>
>      I am taking the liberty of Cc-ing R-devel in case this can be
>      considered a bug.
>
>      --
>      Best regards,
>      Ivan
>
>      [1]
>      [3]https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/main/names.c#L807
>
>      [2]
>      [4]https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/main/platform.c#L1915
>
>      [3]
>      [5]https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/unix/sys-unix.c#L147
>
>      [4]
>      [6]https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/unix/sys-std.c#L494
>
>      [5]
>      [7]https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/tree/tilde.c?h=devel#n187
>
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>    3. https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/main/names.c#L807
>    4. https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/main/platform.c#L1915
>    5. https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/unix/sys-unix.c#L147
>    6. https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/12d1d2d232d84aa355e333348b81180a0e2c6f2f/src/unix/sys-std.c#L494
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