| shortPathName {utils} | R Documentation |
Express File Paths in Short Form on Windows
Description
Convert file paths to the short form. This is an interface to the
Windows API call GetShortPathNameW.
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.
See Also
normalizePath.
Examples
if(.Platform$OS.type == "windows") withAutoprint({
cat(shortPathName(c(R.home(), tempdir())), sep = "\n")
})