Problem with dir.create (R2.2.0 Windows XP 2002 SP 2)
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> writes:
I hope this isn't an insulting question, but does drive D: exist on that machine?
Yes, it definitely does! I'd expect setwd("d:/") to give an error if it didn't
What is the file system? I seem to recall that the top directory of a (V)FAT drive is somehow special, so setwd'ing to it might put a lock on it. Not that I know what I'm talking about, but Windows is notorious for that sort of thing.
Indeed, but only in so far that the directory is non-extensible (e.g. limited to 112 files). I thought it might be that a lock, but it is a simple question of sometimes mis-parsing paths with drives in them.
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