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File not found in write_ and read_ functions when filepath contains tilde #1085

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There seems to be an issue locating files when the filepath/source contains a tilde (e.g. "~/Desktop/some_file.csv"). This is a common pattern for macOS users. Any ideas what might be causing this?

library(polars)
pl$DataFrame(a = 1)$write_csv("~/Desktop/foo_r.csv")
#> Error: Execution halted with the following contexts
#>    0: In R: in $write_csv():
#>    0: During function call [base::tryCatch(base::withCallingHandlers({
#>           NULL
#>           base::saveRDS(base::do.call(base::do.call, base::c(base::readRDS("/var/folders/qw/kjq09mn10l5cmw355f10qr2h0000gn/T//RtmpGAEKud/callr-fun-f0d4b669a3b"), 
#>               base::list(envir = .GlobalEnv, quote = TRUE)), envir = .GlobalEnv, 
#>               quote = TRUE), file = "/var/folders/qw/kjq09mn10l5cmw355f10qr2h0000gn/T//RtmpGAEKud/callr-res-f0d3d17be29", 
#>               compress = FALSE)
#>           base::flush(base::stdout())
#>           base::flush(base::stderr())
#>           NULL
#>           base::invisible()
#>       }, error = function(e) {
#>           {
#>               callr_data <- base::as.environment("tools:callr")$`__callr_data__`
#>               err <- callr_data$err
#>               if (FALSE) {
#>                   base::assign(".Traceback", base::.traceback(4), envir = callr_data)
#>                   utils::dump.frames("__callr_dump__")
#>                   base::assign(".Last.dump", .GlobalEnv$`__callr_dump__`, 
#>                       envir = callr_data)
#>                   base::rm("__callr_dump__", envir = .GlobalEnv)
#>               }
#>               e <- err$process_call(e)
#>               e2 <- err$new_error("error in callr subprocess")
#>               class <- base::class
#>               class(e2) <- base::c("callr_remote_error", class(e2))
#>               e2 <- err$add_trace_back(e2)
#>               cut <- base::which(e2$trace$scope == "global")[1]
#>               if (!base::is.na(cut)) {
#>                   e2$trace <- e2$trace[-(1:cut), ]
#>               }
#>               base::saveRDS(base::list("error", e2, e), file = base::paste0("/var/folders/qw/kjq09mn10l5cmw355f10qr2h0000gn/T//RtmpGAEKud/callr-res-f0d3d17be29", 
#>                   ".error"))
#>           }
#>       }, interrupt = function(e) {
#>           {
#>               callr_data <- base::as.environment("tools:callr")$`__callr_data__`
#>               err <- callr_data$err
#>               if (FALSE) {
#>                   base::assign(".Traceback", base::.traceback(4), envir = callr_data)
#>                   utils::dump.frames("__callr_dump__")
#>                   base::assign(".Last.dump", .GlobalEnv$`__callr_dump__`, 
#>                       envir = callr_data)
#>                   base::rm("__callr_dump__", envir = .GlobalEnv)
#>               }
#>               e <- err$process_call(e)
#>               e2 <- err$new_error("error in callr subprocess")
#>               class <- base::class
#>               class(e2) <- base::c("callr_remote_error", class(e2))
#>               e2 <- err$add_trace_back(e2)
#>               cut <- base::which(e2$trace$scope == "global")[1]
#>               if (!base::is.na(cut)) {
#>                   e2$trace <- e2$trace[-(1:cut), ]
#>               }
#>               base::saveRDS(base::list("error", e2, e), file = base::paste0("/var/folders/qw/kjq09mn10l5cmw355f10qr2h0000gn/T//RtmpGAEKud/callr-res-f0d3d17be29", 
#>                   ".error"))
#>           }
#>       }, callr_message = function(e) {
#>           base::try(base::signalCondition(e))
#>       }), error = function(e) {
#>           NULL
#>           if (FALSE) {
#>               base::try(base::stop(e))
#>           }
#>           else {
#>               base::invisible()
#>           }
#>       }, interrupt = function(e) {
#>           NULL
#>           if (FALSE) {
#>               e
#>           }
#>           else {
#>               base::invisible()
#>           }
#>       })]
#>    1: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }

Created on 2024-05-07 with reprex v2.1.0

I checked the Python implementation and it works as expected:

import polars as pl
pl.DataFrame({"a": 1}).write_csv("~/Desktop/foo_python.csv")
#> None
pl.read_csv("~/Desktop/foo_python.csv")
#> shape: (1, 1)
#> ┌─────┐
#> │ a   │
#> │ --- │
#> │ i64 │
#> ╞═════╡
#> │ 1   │
#> └─────┘

Created at 2024-05-07 15:27:21 BST by reprexlite v0.5.0

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