[R-SIG-Mac] Case distinction on a Mac.

[Rolf Turner]

On 20/02/2009, at 1:29 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:

> Dear Rolf,
> By default, the file system is not case-sensitive.
> So the answer to file.exists(".Rdata") is  correct. And you won't be
> able to write .RData without overwriting .Rdata
>
> You can format a drive with a case-sensitive file system if you wish
> (Spotlight:Disk Utility), but many applications won't be happy to find
> folders containing files with the same (insensitive) name inside.

So I'd probably be opening a massive can of worms for myself if I tried
to go the re-formatting route.  I guess I'll just have to live with the
case-insensitivity.  It seems a really dumb design choice on the part
of Apple, but.  They have a perfectly good Unix system underlying their
shaganappi GUI structure, but they let it get mucked up by this case- 
insensitivity
shambles.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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