[R] copy directory command

2009-02-13 Thread Tim Smith
Hi, I was trying to copy a directory from one location to another. Is there a command to do this (similar to the file.copy command)? thanks! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] copy directory command

2009-02-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Tim Smith wrote: I was trying to copy a directory from one location to another. Is there a command to do this (similar to the file.copy command)? file.copy() does this in the development version of R. Most people use system(paste(cp -r, from, to)) in earlier

Re: [R] copy directory command

2009-02-13 Thread Tony Breyal
Hi Tim, This is what i usually try and do (see ?file.copy) ## R Start... src.dir - 'PFO-SBS001\\Redirected\\tonyb\\Desktop\\folderA\\' dest.dir - 'PFO-SBS001\\Redirected\\tonyb\\Desktop\\folderB\\' file.names - dir(src.dir) sapply(file.names, function(x) { +