[R] get absolute file path

[Romain Francois]

Le 26/09/10 10:00, Sebastian Gibb a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I get a value which stores a relative file name. (I get it from another
> function, which I don't want to change.)
> e.g.
>> fileName<- "../data/2010-08.csv";
>
> Is it possible to get the absolute file path out of this value?
> (e.g. /home/sebastian/documents/data/2010-08.csv)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Sebastian

Hi,

I often use tools:::file_path_as_absolute which is not exported from the 
tools namespace, but does the job.

Romain

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