normalizePath             package:utils             R Documentation

Express File Paths in Canonical Form

Description:

     Convert file paths to canonical form for the platform, to display
     them in a user-understandable form.

Usage:

     normalizePath(path)

Arguments:

    path: character vector of file paths.

Details:

     Where the platform supports it this turns paths into absolute
     paths in their canonical form (no './', '../' nor symbolic links).

     If the path is not a real path the result is undefined. On
     Unix-alikes, this will likely be the corresponding input element.
     On Windows, it will likely result in an error being signalled.

Value:

     A character vector.

Examples:

     cat(normalizePath(c(R.home(), tempdir())), sep = "\n")

