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Dear R-Devel, I've run into an issue with a package (vcfR) that uses file.access to check a file is readable before opening it. The issue is actually in base R though. I've looked into the package code, and it calls file.access(path, mode = 4). I've created a minimal working example of the code in winAccessW from src/gnuwin32/extra.c, and the prob...

...), the OS would not know > whether a file is readable/writeable before trying out on/syncing the > distributed version. > > Best > Tomas > > > On 07/03/2018 01:11 AM, Nick Kennedy wrote: > >> Dear R-Devel, >> >> I've run into an issue with a package (vcfR) that uses file.access to >> check >> a file is readable before opening it. The issue is actually in base R >> though. I've looked into the package code, and it calls file.access(path, >> mode = 4). I've created a minimal working example of the code in >> winAc...

...n a local copy of a file in a distributed file-system), the OS would not know whether a file is readable/writeable before trying out on/syncing the distributed version. Best Tomas On 07/03/2018 01:11 AM, Nick Kennedy wrote: > Dear R-Devel, > > I've run into an issue with a package (vcfR) that uses file.access to check > a file is readable before opening it. The issue is actually in base R > though. I've looked into the package code, and it calls file.access(path, > mode = 4). I've created a minimal working example of the code in winAccessW > from src/gnuwin32/e...