R devel - Dec 2002 - Unix Symbolic links failing ("ls -s realfile linkedas") (PR#2381)

Full_Name: Bruce W. Morlan
Version: 1.5.1
OS: SunOS 5.8
Submission from: (NULL) (129.176.151.124)


I am using an R-package that reads from files if the files are physically in the
startup directory, but fails to read if I use symbolically linked files as in 

  "ln -s real_file linked_as_file"

I did not see this listed in the existing bugs.

How are you `reading from' the files?

We do need a reproducible example to have a hope of fixing this.

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 morlan@mayo.edu wrote:
> Full_Name: Bruce W. Morlan
> Version: 1.5.1
That's two versions old already.
> OS: SunOS 5.8
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.176.151.124)
>
>
> I am using an R-package that reads from files if the files are physically
in the
> startup directory, but fails to read if I use symbolically linked files as
in
>
>   "ln -s real_file linked_as_file"
>
> I did not see this listed in the existing bugs.
If it were, it might well have been fixed since 1.5.1!

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