"Berry, Charles" <ccbe...@ucsd.edu> writes: >> 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
That explains it. A tad bizarre to my mind, but, as usual with R and as I should have known, documented. Thanks, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de ______________________________________________ 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.
