ark: Opening >1 files with `file.edit()` fails

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
developer-experience

Research direction

Start with the file.edit() reproduction and inspect ensure_directory() in the linked ark file, crates/ark/src/modules/private/tools.R. Trace where multiple paths are passed, then verify that file.edit() succeeds when given the two paths shown in the issue without the invalid 'path' error.

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Description

bug lang: r 
file.edit("/Users/davis/files/programming/netlify/netlify-pat.txt", "/Users/davis/files/programming/cpp/date/CMakeLists.txt")
#> Error in `dir.create()`:
#> ! invalid 'path' argument

Due to ensure_directory() only accepting a single file path at a time
https://github.com/posit-dev/amalthea/blob/7ccaa2678e79a2a49ecb7420b8ec4db533404171/crates/ark/src/modules/private/tools.R#L16-L22

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