readlink.Symbolic links are a POSIX concept, not implemented on Windows but for most filesystems on Unix-alikes.
Sys.readlink(paths)path.expand.paths. The
entries are the path of the file linked to, "" if the path is
not a symbolic link, and NA if there is an error (e.g., the
path does not exist).On platforms without the readlink system call, all elements are
"".
file.symlink for the creation of symbolic links (and
their Windows analogues), file.info