Similar examples to yours work for me. Please tell us your OS and version of R, and, as the footer asks
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Hans-Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I try to delete the files in a directory. While the command > > invisible(lapply( list.files( "DeleteThis" ), function(x) > file.remove(paste("DeleteThis", x, sep="/" )) )) Oh, dear! file.path() exists for a reason, and file.remove is vectorized. Try file.remove(dir("DeleteThis", full.names=TRUE)) > works, I keep thinking that there should be a more direct command. > > "unlink" looks like a good candidate but whith this I only arrive to > either delete the whole directory or nothing happens at all. Code: > > file.exists( "DeleteThis" ) # TRUE: folder is here > > (unlink( "DeleteThis/*.*" )) # 0, content doesn't get deleted > (unlink( "DeleteThis/*" )) # do. > (unlink( "DeleteThis/*.*", TRUE )) # do. > (unlink( "DeleteThis/*", TRUE )) # do. > > unlink( "DeleteThis", TRUE ) # whole folder will be deleted > > According to the help placeholders are allowed so I don't see where is > an error. > > Thanks for your help! > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
