path.expand               package:base               R Documentation

Expand File Paths

Description:

     Expand a path name, for example by replacing a leading tilde by
     the user's home directory (if defined on that platform).

Usage:

     path.expand(path)

Arguments:

    path: character vector containing one or more path names.

Details:

     On _some_ Unix versions, a leading '~user' will expand to the home
     directory of 'user', but not on Unix versions without 'readline'
     installed, nor if R is invoked with '--no-readline'.

See Also:

     'basename'

Examples:

     path.expand("~/foo")

