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Suggestion/opinions: add a `absolute` param to `normalizePath()` to force returning an absolute path
2020 Apr 15
0
Suggestion/opinions: add a `absolute` param to `normalizePath()` to force returning an absolute path
The fs[1] function `fs::path_abs()` does what I believe you were
expecting `normalizePath()` to do in this case. e.g.
setwd("~")
normalizePath("foo/bar")
#> Warning in normalizePath("foo/bar") :
#> path[1]="foo/bar": No such file or directory
#> [1] "foo/b...
Suggestion/opinions: add a `absolute` param to `normalizePath()` to force returning an absolute path
2020 Apr 14
4
Suggestion/opinions: add a `absolute` param to `normalizePath()` to force returning an absolute path
This request stems off a bug report I posted
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17757 where it was
determined the current behaviour is as expected.
To recap: when given a real file, normalizePath() always* returns the full
absolute path. When given a non-existent file, normalizePath() returns a
full path on Windows but it returns the input on other systems*. I'd argue
that