> On Nov 23, 2017, at 4:34 AM, Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > TL;DR > ----- > > I define the path > > /cm/shared/apps/R/site-library/3.4.2 > > and add it to libPath. Why does libPath then display it as > > /cm/shared/apps/R/site-library/3.4 > > ? >
Because it is a symbolic link. ?.libPaths says "For consistency, the paths are always normalized by normalizePath(winslash = "/")." and ?normalizePath says "...the Unix-alike platform ... attempts to turn paths into absolute paths in their canonical form (no ./, ../ nor symbolic links)." HTH, Chuck ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
