From ronggui.huang at gmail.com  Fri May 16 20:38:10 2008
From: ronggui.huang at gmail.com (ronggui)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 02:38:10 +0800
Subject: [Rd] basename/dirname produce incorrect results
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I have beend realized the problem of reporting with non-English
character this way. Just don't know how to do in a better way. Sorry
for that.

Now, the problem reported has been fixed ( in version (2008-05-15
r45703)). Thanks for your work.

Best

2008/5/16 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> I'm sorry, but that example make no sense to me -- you need to mark the
> encoding (and don't send HTML that will get stripped).
>
> This is presumably Windows, given the name.
>
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, ronggui wrote:
>
>> The incorrect result incurs when the file path contains Chinese character.
>> It seems that dirname/basename action on unit of byte instead of char, so
>> the result in the following example is half of what is expected.
>
> No, it works in widechars, that is UCS-2.
>
> I have a suspicion of what the problem is (it is related to attempts to
> handle embedded nuls), so please try tomorrow's R-patched to see if I have
> fixed it.  If that does not work, we need a reproducible example, and that
> means a message in a known encoding. (One way to do so is to attach a plain
> text message, and tell us in the body of the message the encoding you used.)
>
>>> g<-"d:\\??????\\??????.txt"
>>> dirname(g)
>>
>> [1] "d:/???"
>>>
>>> basename(g)
>>
>> [1] "????"
>>
>>
>> --
>> HUANG Ronggui, Wincent http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/
>> Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China
>> Master of sociology, Fudan University, China
>> Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK.
>>
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>>
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>
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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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-- 
HUANG Ronggui, Wincent http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/
Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China
Master of sociology, Fudan University, China
Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK.



[Rd] basename/dirname produce incorrect results
ronggui