2 messages · Erin Hodgess, Joshua Wiley
Dear R People: I have a variable named file1 which contains the name of a file. I would like to copy that file to a different directory. Can I do that via the system command or is there a better way, please? Thanks, Erin
Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
system is one option, as it turns out, this is common enough that there are special functions for it, see ?file.copy
More generally, this is a great use of apropos:
apropos("file")
Shows a lot of options. An alternative work flow would be a shell script that runs r scripts and also interacts with the system (depending how much system interaction is needed).
Cheers,
Josh
Dear R People: I have a variable named file1 which contains the name of a file. I would like to copy that file to a different directory. Can I do that via the system command or is there a better way, please? Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
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