normalizePath {utils}R Documentation

Express File Paths in Canonical Form

Description

Convert file paths to canonical form for the platform, to display them in a user-understandable form.

Usage

normalizePath(path)

Arguments

path character vector of file paths.

Details

Where the Unix-alike platform supports it this turns paths into absolute paths in their canonical form (no ./, ../ nor symbolic links).

On Windows it converts relative paths to absolute paths, and converts short names to long names. It will always use backslashes as the path separator.

Value

A character vector.

If a path is not a real path the result is undefined. On Unix-alikes, this will likely be the corresponding input element. On Windows, it will likely result in an error being signalled.

Examples

cat(normalizePath(c(R.home(), tempdir())), sep = "\n")

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