[R] identicalFiles(filename1, filename2)?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 14/08/2014 23:57, William Dunlap wrote:
> Is there a function in core R that takes 2 strings and returns TRUE if
> they refer to the same file?  (If either does not refer to a file, I
> think it would be fine if it returned FALSE.)

No, but equality for normalizePath() works well enough on most OSes 
(Unix-alikes do follow links, although if you have a file system mounted 
in multiple places I have no idea how well it copes).

>
> Compariing inode/device numbers on Unix-like systems and the output of
> normalizePath on Windows would probably do it.   Comparing files on
> non-native file systems can mess things up so perhaps we should not
> promise much.
>
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
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