[R] bug in file.path?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I can read that version, thanks.

The issue is probably that getwd() and filename are in different 
encodings, and file.path() was not expecting that.  You need R-patched >= 
r45490 for that fix.

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Javier Muñoz wrote:

> Sorry,
> this is the same test with R-patched (same results as well).
>
>> setwd("c:/jml/Valoración F1/04 BA/")
>> filename <- "Valoración F1 PAG.mdb"
>
>> file.path(getwd(), filename)
> [1] "c:/jml/Valoración F1/04 BA/Valoración F1 PAG.mdb" <<- wrong
>
>> file.path("c:/jml/Valoración F1/04 BA", filename)
> [1] "c:/jml/Valoración F1/04 BA/Valoración F1 PAG.mdb" <<- ok
>
>> file.path(paste(getwd()), filename)
> [1] "c:/jml/Valoración F1/04 BA/Valoración F1 PAG.mdb" <<-ok
>
>> getwd()
> [1] "c:/jml/Valoración F1/04 BA"
>
> --------------------
> R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-04-23 r45466)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252;LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252;LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Spanish_Spain.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] RODBC_1.2-3
>
> ----------------------
>
> Thanks again.
>
> 2008/4/24, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>> See my reply to Erik Jørgensen yesterday.
>>
>>  Can you please send that again with a marked encoding, so we have a 
>> chance of reading it?  Or attach it as a plain text file and tell us 
>> what encoding the file is in?
>>
>>  Yes, there probably is a bug here but we do need to be able to reproduce it.
>>
>>  On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Javier Muñoz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>>  This is what i get in R-2.7.0 (with the completely internal file.path()):
>>>
>>>
>>>>  setwd("c:/jml/Valoraci?n F1/04 BA/")
>>>>  filename <- "Valoraci?n F1 PAG.mdb"
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>  file.path(getwd(), filename)
>>>>
>>>  [1] "c:/jml/Valoraci??n F1/04 BA/Valoraci?n F1 PAG.mdb" <<- worng
>>>
>>>
>>>>  file.path("c:/jml/Valoraci?n F1/04 BA", filename)
>>>>
>>>  [1] "c:/jml/Valoraci?n F1/04 BA/Valoraci?n F1 PAG.mdb" <<- ok
>>>
>>>
>>>>  file.path(paste(getwd()), filename)
>>>>
>>>  [1] "c:/jml/Valoraci?n F1/04 BA/Valoraci?n F1 PAG.mdb" <<- ok
>>>
>>>  With the older file.path() all of these return "c:/jml/Valoraci?n F1/04
>>>  BA/Valoraci?n F1 PAG.mdb"
>>>
>>>  -- Session info -----------------------
>>>
>>>  R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
>>>  i386-pc-mingw32
>>>
>>>  locale:
>>>  LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252;LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252;LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Spanish_Spain.1252
>>>
>>>  attached base packages:
>>>  [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>>>
>>>  other attached packages:
>>>  [1] RODBC_1.2-3
>>>
>>>  ----------------
>>>
>>>  Is this a bug in the new file.path() or can I change something to make this
>>>  work as before?
>>>
>>>  Thanks.
>>>
>>>  Javier.
>>>
>>>          [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>  --
>>  Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>  Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>>  University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595