shortPathName {utils} | R Documentation

## Express File Paths in Short Form

### Description

Convert file paths to the short (DOS) form, with 8+3 path components and no spaces. This is an interface to the Windows API call `GetShortPathName`.

### Usage

    shortPathName(path)

### Arguments

`path` | character vector of file paths.

### Value

A character vector. The path separator will be `\`.

### See Also

`normalizePath`.

### Examples

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

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