dir.create does not return a value (PR#13686)

However, there is a bug in ?dir.create:

"'dir.create' indicates failure if the dirwctory already  exiss."
sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
Not a bug. Try:

print(dir.create("foo"))

or

foo <- dir.create("foo")
foo

HTH,

--sundar

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:10 AM, ?<r.hijmans at gmail.com> wrote:
?dir.create ?(part of the base package) says that:
"dir.create and Sys.chmod return a logical vector indicating which
operation succeeded for each of the files attempted"

However, on my system it returns nothing ?(whether successful or not):

dir.create(":::@!#!::")
dir.create('b')

sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base

HTH, Robert

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dir.create does not return a value (PR#13686)

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