Hello together, the function `Sys.readlink` uses the system's readlink command to resolve symlink paths. On OSX/BSD the command has a different meaning than on Linux [1].
There exists the tool 'realpath', which seems suitable for the task, at least applied at the command line level [2]. It is used in `normalizePath`. I suggest (at least the latter) to * use realpath instead readlink within Sys.readlink (do_readlink -> do_normalizepath) * link to `normalizePath` in the Rd document, eventually mentioning the difference Many thanks, Sven [1] see https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=readlink vs http://linux.die.net/man/1/readlink [2] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=realpath http://linux.die.net/man/1/realpath --------------------------- Sven E. Templer Bioinformatics Core Group Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 9b 50931 Cologne, Germany Phone: 0049 (0)221 37970 325 temp...@age.mpg.de http://www.age.mpg.de/the-science/core-facilities/bioinformatics/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
