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xls path containing the "~" shortcut can't be read #498
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Hmm ... a workaround in the meantime is:
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I believe we have just rediscovered a good reason why xls paths were being normalized: |
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"~" Tilde pathname shortcut crashes read_excel
xls path containing the "~" shortcut can't be read
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Fixes #498 Prior to b10a1a8,all xls paths were normalized, but we didn't know exactly why. In b10a1a8, I stopped normalizing xls paths, while solving an unrelated path encoding problem presented by R 3.5. In discussion around #477, @jimhester said: "I think doing enc2native(normalizePath()) on the R side for both xls and xlsx seems the best option." I am now taking this wise advice.
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Fixes #498 Prior to b10a1a8,all xls paths were normalized, but we didn't know exactly why. In b10a1a8, I stopped normalizing xls paths, while solving an unrelated path encoding problem presented by R 3.5. In discussion around #477, @jimhester said: "I think doing enc2native(normalizePath()) on the R side for both xls and xlsx seems the best option." I am now taking this wise advice.
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Minor issue: the '~' character on macOS used to point to the home folder causes readxl to throw an error.
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