From hb@maths.lth.se  Mon Sep 24 09:46:29 2001
From: hb@maths.lth.se (hb@maths.lth.se)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:46:29 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: [Rd] Trailing "/" makes file.exists() return FALSE (PR#1098)
Message-ID: <200109240846.KAA02333@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
Version: 1.3.1
OS: WinMe
Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229)


I found the following bug on WinMe (I call it a bug, since the behavior is
different on WinMe than for instance Sun Solaris):

When calling file.exists() with an existing directory name ending with a "/"
(slash) [R] on WinMe will return FALSE, but when doing the same without the
ending "/" it will give TRUE.

I made a quick work around, but this should be taken care of in the native
code:

file.exists <- function(...) {
  # Remove trailing "/", but keep "C:/", "D:/"...
  files <- gsub("\:/$", "\://", c(...));
  files <- gsub("/$", "", files);
  .Internal(file.exists(files));
}


platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     x86
os       Win32
system   x86, Win32
status
major    1
minor    3.1
year     2001
month    08
day      31
language R


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[Rd] Trailing "/" makes file.exists() return FALSE (PR#1098)
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