shortPathName
Convert File Name to DOS 8.3 Format
Description
On Windows, converts the name of a file to one that works unquoted in a cmd script.
Usage
shortPathName(path)
Arguments
| path |
a vector of character strings, presumably naming files.
|
Details
If an input path does not refer to an existing file, then
the corresponding output path is the same as the input path.
On Linux, the output is a copy of the names in the input.
Value
returns a vector the length of the input.
On Windows, this vector contains DOS-style file names (up to 8
characters, a dot, and then up to 3 characters per component, with no
spaces or backslashes between components) that refer to
the same file as the input file names.
See Also
Examples
shortPathName(R.home())
normalizePath(R.home()) == normalizePath(shortPathName(R.home()))