[R] get absolute file path

[Romain Francois]

Le 26/09/10 12:18, Kurt Hornik a écrit :
>
>>>>>> Sebastian Gibb writes:
>
>> Am Sonntag, 26. September 2010, 10:08:39 schrieb 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
>
>> Hello Romain,
>
>> thank you, this function works like expected.
>> Why is it "hidden"?
>
> Afaics it is exported and documented.

oops.

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