R help - Feb 2009 - copy directory command

Hi,

I was trying to copy a directory from one location to another. Is there a
command to do this (similar to the file.copy command)?

thanks!



      
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Hi Tim,

This is what i usually try and do (see ?file.copy)
## R Start...
> src.dir <-
'\\\\PFO-SBS001\\Redirected\\tonyb\\Desktop\\folderA\\'
> dest.dir <-
'\\\\PFO-SBS001\\Redirected\\tonyb\\Desktop\\folderB\\'
>
> file.names <- dir(src.dir)
> sapply(file.names, function(x) {
+                       file.copy(from=paste(src.dir, x, sep=''),
+                                 to=paste(dest.dir, x, sep=''),
+                                 overwrite = FALSE) })
example.txt
       TRUE
>
## R end.

Hope that helps a like,
Tony

On 13 Feb, 12:42, Tim Smith <tim_smith_... at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to copy a directory from one location to another. Is there a
command to do this (similar to the file.copy command)?
>
> thanks!
>
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Tim Smith wrote:
> I was trying to copy a directory from one location to another. Is 
> there a command to do this (similar to the file.copy command)?
file.copy() does this in the development version of R.  Most people 
use

   system(paste("cp -r", from, to))

in earlier versions (needs a Unix-alike or Rtools).
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