[Rd] dir.exists returns FALSE on Symlink directory

[Stephen H. Dawson, DSL]

It sounds like either R as a whole or the R session does not have 
permission to view the directory.


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On 6/26/23 11:07, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> В Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:26:07 -0400
> Dipterix Wang <dipterix.wang using gmail.com> пишет:
>
>> If I symlink a directory, is symlink considered as directory in R?
> It seems to work, at least on GNU/Linux:
>
> # (on this system, /var/lock is a symbolic link pointing to /run/lock/)
> system('ls -l /var/lock')
> # lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root <...> /var/lock -> /run/lock
> dir.exists('/var/lock')
> # [1] TRUE
>
>> If so, why `dir.exists` returns FALSE on directory?
> Which operating system? Judging by your User-Agent, it must be some
> version of macOS. Can you provide the output of `ls -l` on the symbolic
> link?
>