Dear R experts,
This time I am unable create symbolic links to files as I had done last
time. I could not replicate what I had successfully tried last time (rerun
the same code without any modifications) .
I get the following error message..
[1] FALSE
Warning message:
In file.link(".file1", file2, :
cannot link './File1' to './file2', reason 'The specified network name is
no longer available'
The "file.exists", however, results TRUE when I test for source and target
folders and the source file.. I tried with mapping of drives , relative
folder path,and nothing worked.
The R version (on 64-bit Windows 7):
> version
_
platform x86_64-w64-mingw32
arch x86_64
os mingw32
system x86_64, mingw32
status
major 3
minor 0.0
year 2013
month 04
day 03
svn rev 62481
language R
version.string R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
nickname Masked Marvel
Any suggestions are highly welcome!
Thanks,
Santosh
>
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Santosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just got it right.... please ignore the previous posting...
>
> It worked!
> Prof Ripley made my day!! :) THANK YOU!
>
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Santosh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your suggestion... I upgraded to R.3.0.0 in 64-bit Windows 7
>> environment..
>>
>> This time when I use file.link..
>> I get the following error message: 'Cannot create a file when that file
>> already exists"
>> And I don't see the link.
>>
>> The other function, file.copy, correctly copies to the target location.
>>
>> Still confuse with the error msges...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Santosh
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/05/2013 07:33, Santosh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the suggestions. In windows (Windows 7, 64-bit), I couldn't
>>>> get "file.symlink" to work, but "file.link" did return the result to be
>>>> "TRUE" but at the target location, I did not see any link.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure I am missing anything more.. Hope it's nothing to do with
>>>> administrator accounts and administrator rights... Is it something I
>>>> should check with my system administrator?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You may need to update your R: although the posting guide asked you to
>>> do that before posting. There was a relevant bug fix in 2.15.3.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Santosh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>**> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 02/05/2013 19:50, Santosh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Rxperts..
>>>> Got a couple of quick q's..
>>>> I am using R in windows environment (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
>>>> a) Is there a way to create symbolic links to some data files?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> See ?file.symlink. ??'symbolic link' should have got you there.
>>>>
>>>> Note that this is not very useful for files, but that is a Windows
>>>> and not an R restriction.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > b) How do I read data from symbolic links?
>>>>
>>>> The same ways you read data from files.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much..
>>>> Santosh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
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>>> --
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