[R] dir.create only gives first character of name when warning

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You are running an outdated R-patched.  The current version's CHANGES file 
says

     o   dir.create() did not print the path correctly in warning messages.

and your example works for me.


On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Keith Ponting wrote:

> This is not a major issue, but is there any way to get the full
> directory name out when dir.create issues a warning?
> I am running R 2.8.0 patched on Windows Vista - full details below.
>
> With the following code:
>  dir.create("test")
>  obscure<-"test"
>  dir.create(obscure)
> I get the warning message:
>  In dir.create(obscure) : 't' already exists
>
> Session details:
>
> R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-10-21 r46766)
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>> dir.create("test")
>> obscure<-"test"
>> dir.create(obscure)
> Warning message:
> In dir.create(obscure) : 't' already exists
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-10-21 r46766)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keith Ponting
> Aurix Ltd, Malvern WR14 3SZ  UK
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