From tlumley@u.washington.edu  Mon Aug 20 16:28:02 2001
From: tlumley@u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:28:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] system.file("",package) (PR#1062)
In-Reply-To: <200108200644.IAA06705@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.33.0108200825180.142352-100000@homer28.u.washington.edu>

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

>
> Rather than special-case system.file("",package), I think we should remove
> the `or \code{""}' from the documentation.
>
>

Yes. I didn't think so initially, but on reflection
  system.file(some.file,package="blah")
probably should return "" if some.file happens to be "" or have length 0.

	-thomas

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[Rd] system.file("",package) (PR#1062)
Thomas Lumley