access networked PCs directories/files with R ? Dear group, I would like to know if there is an "easy" way to access several networked PCs directories/files from one PC with R ? Concerned OS is windows. I can for instance use dir() on my current PC. Is there a way to do dir() on a connected PC ? (Is there a special syntax for the path ?) (read.table() or readLines() work with URLs I imagine it may also work on connected shared PCs) Thanks for any help. Vincent
Prof Brian Ripley
2008-Apr-01 11:23 UTC
[R] access networked PCs directories/files with R ?
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, mel wrote:> access networked PCs directories/files with R ? > > Dear group, > > I would like to know if there is an "easy" way to access several > networked PCs directories/files from one PC with R ? > Concerned OS is windows. > > I can for instance use dir() on my current PC. > Is there a way to do dir() on a connected PC ? > (Is there a special syntax for the path ?)If it works at all, the usual syntax will work. E.g.> dir("\\\\reeve\\temp")[1] "biblio.tex" "R" (that's \\reeve\temp, the share \temp on machine 'reeve').> (read.table() or readLines() work with URLs > I imagine it may also work on connected shared PCs)No, because MS has not implemented the RFC1738 for URLs to apply to remote machines. See ?url. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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