[R-SIG-Mac] tilde paths cause crash in R on Mac

[David Faden]

I quoted the section of R help that says the tilde would be expanded
if supported by the platform.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> It is not that there is a tilde in the name, but that the filename is
> invalid (nothing said that tilde would be interpreted, and R's help usually
> does when this is the case).
>
> The crash is AFAIK already fixed in 2.7.2 patched (and R-devel does
> interpret tildes on Mac and Windows where it did not previously).