I am trying to delete a directory and its contents using "unlink". The help page says this is not supported on "some platforms" but that if ignored a warning will be given. On Fedora 7 it is seemingly ignored but no warning is given. My command and sessionInfo() are below. Is this expected behavior? If it will not work on my platform, is there an alternative set of commands that will accomplish the same thing? Thanks, Mark unlink(x = tmp.dir, recursive = TRUE) > sessionInfo() R version 2.6.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-08-29 r42686) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base other attached packages: [1] affy_1.15.7 preprocessCore_0.99.12 affyio_1.5.8 [4] Biobase_1.15.29 graph_1.15.14 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] cluster_1.11.7 -- --- Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074 (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please)