Support for path("http://", ...)

[dlksmc]

Description

fs is a wonderful package--I use it in almost every script I write! Thank you to everyone who contributes to it!

Is it a bug that path doesn't seem to work with http://, or is that by design?

Steps to Reproduce

fs::path("https://github.com/r-lib/fs", "issues") returns 'https:/github.com/r-lib/fs/issues', stripping off the second slash.

Expected Behavior

I expected a return value of 'https://github.com/r-lib/fs/issues', similar to the output of file.path("https://github.com/r-lib/fs", "issues") from base R.

[gaborcsardi]

It is by design, supporting URLs would complicate this function considerably, I think for URL you can use paste() or some URL specific function from another package. Changing this would also be a breaking change, so even if we wanted to support URLs, we cannot do it at this point.