Convert file paths to the short form. This is an interface to the
Windows API call GetShortPathNameW
.
shortPathName(path)
character vector of file paths.
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.
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.
# 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 { }) # }
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