R help - Jun 2003 - Mac carbon - foreign - read.spss

Hello,

Can someone confirm that "read.spss" doesn't work with 
usual (old) mac paths ("disk:dir:dir:file"), but only with 
*nix path (Volumes/disk/...)?

rm171 (carbon) - MacOSX 10.2.6

Thanks.
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Jean-Pierre Muller
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jean-Pierre Muller wrote:
> Can someone confirm that "read.spss" doesn't work with 
> usual (old) mac paths ("disk:dir:dir:file"), but only with 
> *nix path (Volumes/disk/...)?
> 
> rm171 (carbon) - MacOSX 10.2.6

The exact code used to open files is (variations on)

    FILE *fp = fopen(R_ExpandFileName(filename), "rb");

which is the same as used in functions such as file.create and 
append.file, and so it would be expected to handle OS-specific file paths.


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