shortPathName

From utils v3.6.2 by R-core R-core@R-project.org

Express File Paths in Short Form on Windows

Convert file paths to the short form. This is an interface to the Windows API call GetShortPathNameW.

Keywords: utilities

Usage

shortPathName(path)

Arguments

path: character vector of file paths.

Details

For most file systems, the short form is the ‘DOS’ form with 8+3 path components and no spaces, and this used to be guaranteed. But some file systems on recent versions of Windows do not have short path names when the long-name path will be returned instead.

Value

A character vector. The path separator will be \. If a file path does not exist, the supplied path will be returned with slashes replaced by backslashes.

Note

This is only available on Windows.

Examples

library(utils)

# NOT RUN {
<!-- % (spacing: for nice rendering of visual part of example) -->
# }
# NOT RUN {
if(.Platform$OS.type == "windows") withAutoprint({

# }
# NOT RUN {
  cat(shortPathName(c(R.home(), tempdir())), sep = "\n")
# }
# NOT RUN {
})
# }

Documentation reproduced from package utils, version 3.6.2, License: Part of R 3.6.2

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