Well that is really on the windows end, not the R end (which may not make it
any less surprising). I would not be surprised if there was an easier way
using .net or vbs which I get the sense is partly where some things are going
(e.g., with the so-called PowerShell), but I am not terribly
Thank you. This is a nice trick, and it works fine for my needs.
It's surprising that there isn't a simple way to get to the drive name.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Joshua Wiley jwiley.ps...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
This comes with absolutely no guarantees (and a good recommendation to
be
On the Mac it's pretty easy to get to a USB drive by name. For example the
following command works if you have a USB drive named MYUSB
setwd('/Volumes/MYUSB')
Is there a way to do the same thing in Windows (without knowing the drive
letter)?
Thanks!
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AFAIK the answer is no. There are ways to look up the volume label given the
drive letter, with which you can search for the drive letter by trial and
error, but in most cases that is more trouble than it is worth.
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Jeff
Hi,
This comes with absolutely no guarantees (and a good recommendation to
be cautious), but you could try it:
myset - function(name = , path = ) {
res - vector(character, length(LETTERS))
for(i in LETTERS) {
res[i] - shell(shQuote(paste(VOL , i, :, sep = '')), intern =
TRUE,
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