| Sys.readlink {base} | R Documentation |
Find out if a file path is a symbolic link, and if so what it is
linked to, via the system call readlink.
Symbolic links are a Unix concept, not implemented on Windows.
Sys.readlink(paths)
paths |
character vector of file paths. Tilde expansion is done:
see |
A character vector of the the same length as paths. The
entries are the path of the file linked to, "" if the path is
not a symbolic link, and NA if there is an error (e.g., the
path does not exist).